WORLD USABILITY DAY will feature speakers on usability topics, a participatory recycling activity, and an open house at the Usability Services Laboratory. Sponsored by the Office of Information Technology and the Digital Technology Center. Nov. 12. For more information, see usability day.
A class blog from WRIT 3001: Introduction to Scientific and Technical Communication was featured in the Write@U Gallery for the NCTE National Day on Writing (October 20, 2009). The blog can be seen at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lkbreuch/writ3001. Students are writing about readings and guest speakers, and they are sharing their reflections about technical communication.
Guest speakers include:
October 14: Alecia Ramsay, IBM
October 21: Guy Petrie, Medtronic
October 28: John Neenan, US Bank
November 4: Lee Thomas, Yamamoto Moss
November 11: Janel Anderson, Thomson-Reuters
Congratulations to students in WRIT 3001!
An article in the Minnesota Daily about the University's National Day on Writing participation features quotes from Writing Studies' Heather Mendygral, Tim Gustafson, and Tim Dougherty.
Read it here: University's Center on Writing hosts first National Day on Writing
With this provocative series of discussions, the Center for Writing's Teaching with Writing program offers University of Minnesota faculty members, TAs, and other instructors a venue for discussing controversial issues related to teaching with writing. Here we focus on teasing out tangled and difficult teaching issues rather than providing strategies and solutions. To help frame discussions, we will send registrants one or two short articles in advance.
Friday, October 2: what counts as "writing"?
Friday, November 6: i write, therefore i learn?
Friday, December 4: the erosion of writing skills
Discussions are from 9-10:30am in Nolte 125.
For more information, visit http://writing.umn.edu/tww/engaging/engaging.htm.