Former Writing Student Teaches Workshops
Writer’s Workshops at Skaneateles Library
Are you interested in developing your creative writing skills? We’ll be hosting a five-part Writer’s Workshop for beginning and aspiring writers during the month of April. Workshops will be held from 5:00 to 7:45 pm on Tuesday April 2nd, Tuesday April 9th, Thursday April 18th, Tuesday April 23rd and Tuesday April 30th. A wide range of topics will be covered, such as the writing process, developing characters, pacing a story and creating tension. Participants may attend one or all classes. Please contact the library for details and to register at 685-5135.
Workshop leader Larry Michael Lounsbury is a local writer pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Goddard College in Vermont.
Financial Literacy for Writers
DD’s recent post on financial literacy got me thinking how understanding loans and spending are crucial for college students and perhaps especially for those studying writing. Writers often spend more time with words than numbers and so one has to consider how at risk they are for higher costs or debt. For example, what’s your basic knowledge on spending? Take this quiz to see.
Though clearly dramatic as only a talk show persona can be, Suze Orman presented a resounding and frustratingly accurate speech last year on student loan debt that some have commented should be required viewing for beginning college students.
Student loans are serious business, and student writers should understand that their signature dedicates them to clear responsibility.
Possibllities for Student Musicians and Artists
Are you and artist or musician looking for a gig?
Contact Stomping Grounds to participate in Geneva Night Out.
Ideas Wanted for Writing Degree at Cayuga
Avadon: A Case Study In Videogame Storytelling by Jeff VOGEL
Presented at Casual Connect Seattle, July 2012.
Advisee in the Newspaper
Cayuga Community College student wins James Joyce award for second consecutive year
SOMA News in The Citizen
Media, writing, and arts students can get the four-year college experience at Cayuga.
Pixar Storytelling
A MFA Creative and Professional Writing program recently posted storytelling rules from Pixar. Some items in the list function as general advice, some as writing prompts. If you’re looking for ideas or merely like Pixar’s work, either way, it’s worth a look.
Patchwriting Coming to a Paper Near You
Many students enter Cayuga with a simplified view of plagiarism: such as, It’s something only cheaters do. Or When in doubt, cite everything.
As Howard mentions in the following video, using sources is a challenge all writers face. If the writer hasn’t written frequently for the disciplinary genre at hand, he or she can’t ignore patchwriting that results in intentional or unintentional plagiarism. ELL and underprepared students, in particular, need to be aware that hoping not be caught or not having been caught in the past won’t master patchwriting.
Plagiarism is treated as an academic crime, and like any crime, being unaware of the criminal code or ignoring it is no excuse for breaking the rules. Instead, acknowledging that we’re all at risk and taking more time to read, practicing paraphrasing, and studying what a paper demands through models or expert feedback are the better approaches to take.
The Subject is Writing
Are you familiar with WAW pedagogy in writing scholarship? Click on the Wardle and Downs book for a useful bibliography on it.
WPA Bib on WAW
For a number of semesters I’ve been using the Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing anthologies in two of my courses, and its plausible to believe the argument that Writing About Writing can address the long-time concern of writing skill transfer beyond a composition class.
By the way, Writing Spaces is freely distributed under a Creative Commons license, so adopting it provides an immediate solution to the over pricing of college textbooks.
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