“We’ve dubbed our event ‘Cougs the Write Way,’ and our graduate student administrative interns have organized three events to showcase and celebrate writing,” said Diane Kelly-Riley, co-director of WSU’s nationally renowned Writing Program.
The first event is a writing contest, open from now until 5 p.m. Oct.20. Students can submit online a “Letter to President Floyd” concerning an issue facing the university and solutions to respond to it. Three winning letters will be selected, and the student authors will be invited to discuss their ideas in person with Floyd over lunch.
Each letter can contain up to 250 words, and undergraduate, graduate and professional students are welcome to submit an entry. A committee consisting of Kelly-Riley and several administrative interns will evaluate the letters and choose the winners; the interns are students in English 531 and are organizing the day of writing events.
In addition to the contest, two in-person events will occur Oct. 20.
A “Free-Writing Wall” will be available 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the CUB.
“Students can stop by and express themselves in writing,” said Dorian Deome, English graduate student and Writing Program administrative intern.
At 6 p.m. that evening, “A Poetry Night” in the Holland/Terrell Library atrium will feature an open mic. Students, faculty, staff and friends are invited to share poetry they have written or read the work of their favorite poet. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information on “Cougs the Write Way” and guidelines on the letter-writing contest, visit writingprogram.wsu.edu or contact Deome at heydeome@gmail.com.
The WSU Writing Program recently was hailed as an “Academic Program to Look For” in “America’s Best Colleges 2010” by U.S. News & World Report. This marks the seventh year in the past nine that the Writing Program has made the rankings.
The program consists of the award-winning peer tutoring Writing Center, the Writing in the Disciplines program, and the Writing Assessment program, of which WSU’s Junior Writing Portfolio is a part. Each year, thousands of students and dozens of faculty are served by one or more of the units of the Writing Program, which is part of the Office of Undergraduate Education.
