Vol. 1  Issue 7
March 2004

A Newsletter Published by the SIUE Writing Center

Building an OWL Nest                                                                      By Chad Verbais
Web design is a tricky issue.  Everyone has differing opinions on what looks appealing and what/where the content should be placed.  This semester the Writing Center is redesigning its web page and is faced with the task of making a visually appealing site that is easy to search, and yet informative at the same time.  Read More

The Writing Center: An Underused and Often Overlooked Campus Resource
By Justin Hodgson

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the English Department, I'm required to both teach an English 101 class and work five hours a week in the campus writing center.  Without a doubt, some of my best teaching occurs in the writing center.            Read More

Blogs - The Diary of Tomorrow…Today!

Web logs, or blogs, are wonderfully addictive and informative texts that anyone can start in less than ten minutes.  Below are several writing related blogs that might be of interest to those of you new to the experience or curious about other blogger's ideas. 

The Writing Center will be starting a blog in the future and we hope this introduction to a new form of textual dissemination spurs you to create one as well.  If you do, and would like it linked to the newsletter, please feel free to contact us!  (Please note that some of the blogs are not updated regularly or have completely died--an unfortunate, and yet somewhat regular, occurrence in the blogging world.)


http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting

http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/

http://clcasper.blogspot.com/

http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/

http://kairosnews.org/

http://www.faultline.org/place/pinolecreek/

http://fragmentsfromfloyd.com/

http://www.vitia.org/

http://www.magpienest.org/scgi-bin/wiki.pl?HomePage

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/

http://www.culturecat.net/

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/