This semester the Writing Center offers two different workshop series to help midshipmen develop their writing skills: Plebe Writing Workshops and Creative Writing Workshops.  All workshops take place during Tuesday or Friday noon hours (1200-1315) with an excusal list and box lunch.  Email (wcenter@usna.edu), call (x3-6239), or stop by the Writing Center (Sampson Hall G20) to be placed on the excusal list(s).  Give us your name and alpha and the workshop date(s) when you sign up.   Note: Midshipmen (or faculty) are welcome to attend without signing up in advance; however, without being on the excusal list, midshipmen must go to formation and lunch first.

PLEBE WRITING WORKSHOPS

This series offers practical help with several specific facets of academic writing and targets 4/C midshipmen who are working on a variety or writing assignments in their core courses.  Workshops will be held on the ground floor of Sampson (specific room TBD).
 

Jan 28 (Fri)  Paragraph Organization
Presenter: Pat Murray – SIGN UP BY: 20 Jan

Feb 11 (Fri)  Punctuation Review
Presenter:  Valerie Lester - SIGN UP BY:  1 Feb

Feb  18 (Fri)  Parallel Structure from Titles to Words
Presenter: Pat Murray - SIGN UP BY:  8 Feb

Mar 4 (Fri)  Precision (Exactness):  Avoiding Cliché’s, Mixed Metaphors, and Other Unfortunate Serious Events
Presenter: Pat Murray - SIGN UP BY:  24 Feb

Mar 25 (Fri)  Concision (Directness):  Felling Deadwood, Pruning Redundancy
Presenter: Pat Murray- SIGN UP BY:  11 Mar

Apr 1 (Fri) Say What You Mean:  Avoiding Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers
Presenter:  Valerie Lester - SIGN UP BY:  24 Mar

Apr 8 (Fri)  Keep It Honest:  Avoiding the “P” Word
Presenter: Valerie Lester - SIGN UP BY: 30 Mar

Apr 15 (Fri)  Editing Yourself
Presenter:  Valerie Lester - SIGN UP BY: Apr 7
 
 

 
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

This series, co-sponsored by The Writing Center & Poetry Café, offers interactive guidance on some specific areas of writing poetry and prose.  All will be held in the English Dept Library, 2nd deck Sampson (near the Hart Room).

Feb 8 – Love Poetry
Presenter: Prof Nancy Arbuthnot
SIGN UP BY: Jan 31
Get some practice and tips on composing that sonnet or free-verse poem to make that special someone's heart melt or even sublimate above the ice and snow to that perpetual springtime of true love somewhere in the Matrix of peace and harmony--okay, we'll actually help you avoid poetry like this, so come and check it out.

Feb 22  Writing for the Labyrinth
Presenter – Prof. John Beckman and Labyrinth staff
SIGN UP BY: Jan 31

March 8 – Composing from the Senses
Presenter – Prof. Temple Cone
SIGN UP BY:  Feb 28
Hear Prof. Cone read from his newly published poetry collection and then practice using your senses to create poetry of your own.

Early April (date TBD) Language & Poetry
Presenter:  Prof. Nancy Arbuthnot
SIGN UP BY:

Late April (date TBD)  Nature and Poetry
Presenter: Prof Arbuthnot
SIGN UP BY:
Enjoy a walk outdoors in the warm spring weather and then start putting your response to the sights, smells, and
sounds into poetry.