Archive for the ‘Special Events’ Category
October 6th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Session #4—Writing and Speaking Across the Disciplines
(Thursday, October 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m., CTLR Library 225)
- Tell us the writing expectations and guidelines of your major.
- Getting comfortable giving oral presentations.
Writing in the Disciplines Handout: 09FallWID
Useful Oral Presentation Handouts
Added on October 15: Yonna McShane has a great Oral Presentation Rubric that she uses with her class and in her ACE training. I’m uploading it for you here to work with your students: Oral Presentation Yonna’s Rubric
The next makeup session will take place after the break.
No Drop in tutoring on Sunday, October 11 or on Monday, October 12.
Drop in Tutoring will resume on Tuesday, October 13th 7:30-midnight in CTLR.
Upcoming special sessions:
- Working with Multilingual students: Thursday, October 22 4:30-5:30, CTLR
- RefWorks Workshops: Monday, October 19 at 7:00 PM, Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 PM
April 5th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
This Thursday, senior History of Art and Architecture Major Nicole Conti shows us how to tutor HARC papers:
Thursday, April 9, 4:30-5:30 in CTLR (Lib 225).
Trained tutors may use this as one optional training session. Both trained and new tutors invited.
Update: Thanks to Nicole for an animated and informative presentation. If you were not able to join us, you can download two of the handouts from the presentation here:
March 26th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Update: Thanks to Danny, Jennifer, and Catharine for making this session a success!
We had a wonderful turnout, and we’ll upload a helpful handout from this session soon.
You asked for this session, and now it’s here for Trained Peer Writing Tutors!
Optional Session for Trained Peer Writing Tutors.
Date and time: Wednesday, April 1, 4:30-5:30 PM
Location: CTLR, Library 225
Panelists:
Middlebury College Faculty: Catharine Wright & Jennifer Bates have taught Creative Writing Courses at Middlebury and are published authors.
Middlebury Senior: Danny Roberts has taken Creative Writing Courses and has written columns for the Middlebury College Campus.
The panel will divulge tips for tutoring creative writing assignments and provide you with hands-on practice in tutoring creative writing.
This is a paid session that makes up for one training session .
October 22nd, 2008 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
CSO Sponsored Career Conversation:
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Charles Strum P’08
Associate Managing Editor, New York Times
Come join a career expert who has spent many years in the print and electronic media.
Bring your questions about a career in journalism, about media operations, and about how the industry is fairing today.
Learn tips about finding the best jobs and internships!
Thursday, October 23
6:15 p.m.
MBH 220
This event follows the session “Working with the Media” sponsored by Public Affairs for faculty and staff.
Questions?
Contact Tim Mosehauer
CSO Career Counselor
May 15th, 2008 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
You are cordially invited to a luncheon in the CTLR on Tuesday, May 20th at noon. Please RSVP by return email (some of you have already done so, thanks!) –our way of saying ‘Thanks’ for all you do for the CTLR . We also have a little something for you to take with you. 
Thanks to all the Peer Writing Tutors, ACEs, Content Tutors, Media Tutors and CTLR workers who shared their thoughts about working in our programs!
February 28th, 2008 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
youngwritersproject.org | Create. Learn. Publish. Connect. Read.
You can learn how to volunteer for this valuable project at Session #1.
December 10th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
CTLR invites its ACEs, PWTs,Content Tutors,
and Student Staff to a thank-you luncheon
on Wednesday, December 12 from 12 – 1:30 PM
Come for all or part of the time.
RSVP to ctlr@middlebury.edu
I hope as many of you as our free will come by next Wednesday–whether for lunch or just for a few minutes. We appreciated all that you do as Peer Writing Tutors as part of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research. See you then!
Remember if you have not filled out a Future Plans form, you can still do so, and e-mail it to me.
October 14th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Congratulations to all the Ward Prize nominees from the class of 2010!
Special congratulations to the following Peer Writing Tutors nominated this year:
Elizabeth Bates, Emma Cline, Amer Dastgir, Amber L. Harris, Tamara L. Hilmes, Kelly Janis, DaWeon Ryu, Allie N. Shaffer, Daniel A. Sheron, and Lauren N. Vollmer.
Very special congratulations to this year’s winner, Emma Cline!
The rest of the Ward Prize nominees will be invited to train as Peer Writing Tutors in the spring.
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May 21st, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
As the academic year comes speedily to a close, it’s easy for us to just slip quietly away without getting a chance to say goodbye. Before all thoughts of Middlebury leave your consciousness, I want to thank you all for your service this year. You served in classes, as drop-in tutors, and in several other ways I’ll mention later.. You are one of the reasons Middlebury College students write so well!
I’d like to send a special thank you to our graduating seniors. We’ll miss you and hope for all good things for you in the future. I hope to see all the graduating seniors at our very special lunch this Wednesday at CTLR Here are some pictures from last year’s senior lunch. Please RSVP to JoAnn Brewer. If you have won any special awards, please let me know, and I’ll post it on our blog.
Very special thanks go to Elise and Luke who have served as Head PWTs this year. You both did a splendid job, and we’ll miss you. We are lucky to have Sarah McGowen and Esther Guidos serving as PWT Heads next year, and they are already helping with planning for next year!
A number of tutors did special jobs for us, Luke (with help from Nicki) did a great Oral Presentation workshop! Nicki (with help from many new and trained tutors) organized Thesis Nights. Scott gave me a new data base. Caitlin designed new logs sheets. Tessa, Emily, Eand Elizabeth updated our Writing Across the Disciplines sheet. Robyn, Erin, and Dan took on special tutoring assignments, and a number of you attended our special lunches: writing in math and the hard sciences, writing in the social sciences, and writing in the foreign languages. Thank you, all!
I’m working on matching tutors and first-year faculty in the next two weeks, and I’ll be e-mailing some of you about assignments soon. Placements continue throughout the whole summer, so keep watching your e-mail.
I hope to see the seniors on Wednesday and the rest of you when you’re back in Middlebury.
Best,
Mary Ellen Bertolini
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Assistant Director, Writing
Lecturer, Tutor in Writing
February 10th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
February 14, 2007
CTLR, Lib 225
Noon-1:30 (Come for any part of this you can.)
Baked Salmon Stuffed with Mascarpone Spinach on a Bed of Rice
Berry Parfait w/ Real Whipped Cream
R.S.V.P. Mary Ellen Bertolini
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February 10th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
On Valentine’s Day, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research will host a special lunch with faculty in the foreign languages, peer writing tutors and content tutors. We will discuss the services that CTLR now provides for students studying foreign languages and explore ways we might improve those services in the future. In particular, we hope to discuss the possibility of beginning a program of peer writing tutors who could work with students on papers in the most commonly taught foreign languages. To this end, we invite current peer writing tutors and foreign language tutors to meet foreign language faculty at lunch. Please contact Mary Ellen Bertolini if you would like to attend this special lunch.
December 11th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research will celebrate our student workers (Peer Writing Tutors, ACES, Content Tutors, Office Staff) with a Thank-You Reception on Tuesday, December 12th from 1:00-2:00 PM in Lib 225.
Please come by for a yummy snack if only for a few minutes.
And an VERY SPECIAL THANKS to the Peer Writing Tutors working in CTLR this weeK: Kara, Pat, Zeeshan, Mike, Elise, Lindsey, Liz, and Lissa!
October 7th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Some of the best writers from the class of 2009. Several are already at work as Peer Writing Tutors. We will invite the rest to train as tutors this spring.
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May 17th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Thanks to all of you for a job well done this year!
 Congratulations to our graduating seniors!
We will be entertaining our graduating seniors (and our almost-graduating Feb seniors) at a lovely lunch in CTLR Wednesday during senior week at noon. Update: See pictures from this event here.
I met Monday with many of next year’s FYSE instructors, and I’ve begun placing Peer Writing Tutors in next year’s classes. Next week, I’ll start e-mailng you your assignments. If you never filled out the Future Plans form and you want a class next year, you can still download the form and e-mail it to me.
Tomorrow, I’m off to Bates College to discuss our Peer Writing Turor Program here at Middlebury, but I’ll be back in my office next week if you want to come by and say goodbye for the summer.
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April 17th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
April 14th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
Featured Center: Middlebury College’s Writing Center | Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
Praxis has featured our Writing Center in their journal this spring. You may recognize some of our peer writing tutors in the pictures!
February 26th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini
I found the event worthwhile. They emphasized the importance of tailoring your resume for each specific job, and completely rewriting your cover letter for each as well. As peer tutors, there are a few specific things we can look for in other students’ cover letters and resumes. For a resume, we can help the student use provocative action verb to describe their accomplishments, and to thin down their accomplishment to what truly are their accomplishments, because in most resumes, less is more. For cover letters, it is important to make sure the student is not using a template, (especially not one with the names of employers from other firms). We should also help them create a cover letter that is short, concise, and contains only relevant
information.
–Jeffery Boyd
Peer Writing Tutors have two more chances to attend this workshop. Click below to see dates and to learn more.
–Mary Ellen Bertolini
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