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WORKSHOPS
Navigating the Blogosphere FACILITATED BY DEVON NIEBLING Bring your own favorite content sites
and blogs to this workshop. Apply a litmus test for credibility
and learn tips for using blogs in your academic research.
Saturday, December 8
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Monday, December 10
7:00-8:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Saturday, December 15
12:30-1:30 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Stand Out from the Crowd: On
Writing Effective Personal Statements, Application Essays, and
Letter of Intent FACILITATED BY GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS Talking about our strengths can be awkward. Talking
about our strengths is also absolutely necessary when applying
for a job, a scholarship, or admission to a university. How do
you stand out from the crowd? In this workshop, we will look at
examples of effective personal statements, application essays,
and letters of intent. We'll discuss what works and what
doesn't. Let's help you stand out. Monday,
December 10
noon-1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Tuesday, December 11
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Friday, December 14
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Getting Published 101: Who,
What, When, Where, and Why to Submit Your Work FACILITATED BY AMANDA DENATALE Have you written short stories,
poems, or nonfiction essays that you’re ready to share? What
comes next? How do you get them published? We’ll cover it all:
submitting, tracking, considering genre, writing cover letters,
and navigating the publishing industry. Monday,
December 10
noon-1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Monday, December 10
1:30-2:30 p.m.
SOC, CON 222 Monday, December 10
3:00-4:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Chapbook 101: How to Create
and Submit a Small Book of Poetry or Prose FACILITATED BY LEEANN ADAMS Tuesday, December 11
11:00 a.m. to noon
SOC, CONN 222 Wednesday, December 12
11:00 a.m. to noon
FOC #23, 213 Thursday, December 13
11:00 a.m. to noon
Sarpy 216 Good Vibes
Writing: Reverse Fears, Insecurities, and Overall Distastes
Toward Writing FACILITATED BY DEBORAH RAINEY Writing is a tool we should all enjoy
using to connect with ourselves and with others. This workshop
addresses the bad taste toward writing many of us have and
offers strategies for finding joy in the journey, whether we are
trudging through a first or fifteenth draft. Thursday, December 13
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Monday, Tuesday, December 18
11:00 a.m.-noon
FOC #23, 213 Elkhorn
Valley Campus Creative Writers' Group FACILITATED BY LEAH HEDRICK Come to our monthly writers' group meetings in the EVC
Writing Center to meet a supportive group of like-minded
creatives. We'll be discussing writing and editing strategies,
sharing publishing opportunities, and cheering each other on.
Feel free to bring your own poem, short piece of fiction, or
creative essay for us to read and talk about! Tuesday, December 11
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Tuesday, January 15
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Tuesday, February 12
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212
Researching Inside and FACILITATED BY FRANKIE WARD Monday, December 17
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Tuesday, December 18
noon-1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Thursday, December 20
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222
FACILITATED BY EMILY BORGMANN Monday, December 17
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC CONN 222 Tuesday, December 18
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Wednesday, December 19
11:00 a.m.-noon
FOC #23, 213 Read Your
Way to Better Writing FACILITATED BY CATHY WOLLMAN “If you want to be a writer, you must
do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen King By reading, writers not only increase
knowledge but also gain a better understanding of language,
learn about form and structure, grow vocabulary and most
importantly, find inspiration. Come to this workshop to
share ideas about how reading all types of text can have a
lasting, positive impact on your writing and your life. Saturday,
January 5
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Sunday, January 6
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Sunday, Brainstorming vs. Editing:
Keeping Your Writing Processes Separated FACILITATED BY EMILY BORGMANN Do you find yourself criticizing your writing ideas or
word choices while still coming up with the ideas? Intentionally
keeping the brainstorming and editing processes separate helps
with frustration. It also helps with clarity of arguments. In
this workshop, we will chat about strategies and guidelines for
how to allow your ideas to cover the page and THEN (and only
then!) how to think critically to edit and shape those ideas. Monday, January 7
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222
Tuesday, January 8
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Wednesday, January 9
11:00 a.m.-noon
FOC #23, 213 Learn how to format your paper, cite
sources, and write the references page. FACILITATED BY FRANKIE WARD Monday, January 7
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Thursday, January 10
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Friday, January 11
noon-1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Tricks for
Paraphrasing Properly FACILITATED BY HOLLY RICHMOND Do you struggle when it comes to paraphrasing? Not sure
exactly where the line is between copying and paraphrasing?
Don't quite know how to "put it in your own words?" Here are
some tips and tricks to help you become a pro at paraphrasing. Tuesday, January 8
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Wednesday, January 9
2:00-3:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Thursday, January 10
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 212 FACILITED BY GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS What are epistolary poems? According
to the Academy of American Poets, “Epistolary poems, from the
Latin ‘epistula’ for ‘letter,’ are, quite literally, poems that
read as letters. As poems of direct address, they can be
intimate and colloquial or formal and measured. The subject
matter can range from philosophical investigation to a
declaration of love to a list of errands, and epistles can take
any form, from heroic couplets to free verse.” In this workshop,
we will begin by looking at examples of epistolary poems by Ada
Limon, Natalie Diaz, and Matthew Olzmann. Then we'll write
epistolary poems of our own! Monday, January 7
noon-1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Tuesday, January 8
noon-1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Friday, January 11
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Incubating
Your Ideas: Journaling Your Way toward Better College Writing FACILITATED BY KLAYTON KASPERBAUER Come learn to use journal writing as
a thinking tool to strengthen your ideas, sharpen your insights,
and facilitate problem solving. Friday, January 11
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 212 Friday, January 11
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Friday, January 11
1:00-2:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213
Using OneDrive and PowerPoint FACILITATED BY KATHY NEVILLE Come learn about the benefits of using OneDrive over
pesky flash drives. You will also learn about the ease of using
Power Point. The former leads to the latter. Saturday,
January 12
9:00-10:00 a.m.
EVC 212 Saturday, January 12
10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
FOC #23, 213 Saturday, January 12
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 FACILITATED BY MICHAEL JAMIESON Get help writing Rhetorical Analyses!
Whether you are analyzing a photo, advertisement, or essay, this
workshop will teach you how to figure out why it was made
(Purpose) and who it was made for (Audience). This workshop will
also cover those tricky Rhetorical Strategies: Ethos, Pathos,
and Logos. Finally, you’ll learn how to turn these concepts into
a well-supported, convincing Rhetorical Analysis. Monday, January 14
10:30-11:30 a.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Wednesday, January 16
10:30-11:30 a.m.
EVC 212 Wednesday, January 16
noon – 1:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Express
Yourself: Purposely Add Your Uniqueness to All Your Writing
Assignments FACILITATED BY DEBORAH RAINEY This workshop will include exercises,
examples and discussions about how you express your unique self
in your writing. Since, even in academic projects, the topics
you choose, perspectives you provide, your arrangements of
content, and your employment of grammar and syntax all point to
your individual style—Rock It! Monday, January 14
4:00-5:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Tuesday, January 15
11:00 a.m.-noon
FOC #23, 213 Thursday, January 17
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 FACILITATED BY SUZANNE BARRETT Come to this workshop to learn more
about Tanka, a genre of classical Japanese poetry, having
a similarity to Haiku. Wednesday January 16
2:00-3:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Friday, January 18
10:00-11:00 a.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Friday, January 18
noon--1:00 p.m.
EVC 122
FACILITATED BY ERIN ARELLANO A six-word memoir may seem
impractical. But what if it can help you learn to answer
questions concisely on job applications, or write that college
or scholarship application essay that has a word limit?
Participants will write six-word memoirs demonstrating the
positive elements of their characters. We will share stories
about helping those in need, commitment in the face of certain
defeat, and encounters with temptation, and then bullet point
some of the “job-readiness” or “college-friendly” attributes
these stories suggest. Thursday, January 17
10:00-11:00 a.m.
FOC #23, 213 Thursday, January 17
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Thursday, January 17
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212 FACILITATED BY
EVE HERMANSON A
good observation is more than just a list of facts and
measurements. Like a detective, a careful observer examines the
evidence and makes use of the five senses—taste, hearing, sight,
touch and smell—to and select and describe details which add up
to a clear dominant impression. This workshop will explore some
observation techniques and practice writing an observation.
Thursday, January 17
6:00-7:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222
Friday, January 18
9:30-10:30 a.m.
FOC #23, 213
Friday, January 18
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
EVC 212 From Ear
to Open Mind: Rhetorical Listening FACILITATED BY KLAYTON KASPERBAUER For students, entering an academic
conversation, be it spoken or written (say, composing an
argumentative essay), always begins with paying attention:
attention to your initial ideas on a subject, attention to what
others are saying, and attention how your ideas and theirs
interact. Come discuss mental habits that will help you converse
in the classroom as well as in your essays. Friday,
January 18
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 212 Friday, January 18
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Friday, January 18
1:00-2:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Sophisticating your Sentence
Structure Style FACILITATED BY BETH MCGRATH Learn how to use simple and easy to
understand formulas to build style, fluency and complexity in
your sentences. Nail down understanding of semicolons and
how to construct more complicated sentence structures. Thursday, January 24
5:00-6:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Sunday, January 27
noon-1:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Monday, January 28
4:30-5:30 p.m.
EVC 212
Personalizing Your Writing Practice FACILITATED BY RYAN BROWN This workshop explores the nature
and importance of implementing (or improving) your own personal
writing practice. From the one whose unopened journal is
collecting dust on the nightstand to the one who has been
documenting each day for the past 10 years – all can find
something valuable in this session. We will look at a
variety of helpful journaling prompts as well as discuss
strategies for committing to a daily or weekly journal check-in.
You will leave the workshop with a personalized prompt and plan
for using journal writing to illuminate and enrich your inner
life. Thursday January 31
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
FOC #23, 213 Thursday January 31
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Thursday January 31
noon – 1:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Strategies for Summary
Writing FACILITATED BY ANNIE JOHNSON Students are often asked to write a summary of an
article or a book chapter, but sometimes it's hard to know
exactly where to begin. In this workshop you'll gain not
only useful knowledge about how to write a summary, but also
reading strategies that will set you up for success in your
writing. Friday, February 1
10:00-11:00 a.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Friday, February 1
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
FOC #23, 213 Friday, February 1
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 212 How to Communicate
Effectively with Your Instructor via Email Learn how to properly address you instructor in an
email, create an effective email subject line, write a clear
message, and reply appropriately. Monday, February 4
4:00-5:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222 Tuesday, February 5
2:00-3:00 p.m. EVC 212 Tuesday, February 5
4:00-5:00 p.m. FOC #23, 213
TEACHER TALKS
For these sessions, we invite faculty from across the disciplines to
come and do what we never get enough time to do—talk with other
teachers about teaching.
Please bring in the assignment descriptions you give your students for
major papers and prepare to workshop them to perfection.
Together, we will look at and discuss examples from a wide
variety of classes. Please bring your laptops!
FACILITATED BY Jeff Lacey
Saturday, February 2
2:00-3:00 p.m.
FOC 23, 213
Monday, February 4
4:00-5:00 p.m.
EVC 212 Saturday, February 9 2:00-3:00 p.m. SOC CONN, 223
Too often, students do not engage with classes because they
are core requirements that seem to have little to do with their
lives. What ways
have teachers found to bridge this gap and demonstrate that
there is a purpose for these classes beyond jumping through
hoops? (assignments, class discussions, etc.)
FACILITATED BY AMY SATHER
Monday, December 17
4:00-5:00 p.m.
SOC, CONN 222
Tuesday, December 18
2:00-3:00 p.m.
EVC 212
Thursday, December 18
4:00-5:00 p.m.
FOC #23, 213
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