National Day on Writing
Fall Break is tomorrow, and judging by the parking lots some of our students have already headed off someplace special for the long weekend.
I was in a meeting today and heard about a project taking place this coming Monday, October 20th – the National Day on Writing. This looks like a very interesting event and I hope your students will participate in it. Details are below.
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On Monday October 20, the Writing Center will be celebrating the National Day on Writing. There will be a table in the Benson Center outside the food court from 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. where we will invite students to write collaboratively Wake Forest’s longest ghost story–one sentence at a time (as part of a writing exercise called an “exquisite corpse”).
In addition, the 2014 theme from the National Council of Teachers of English is “Write My Community.” Because we know how important creating an inclusive campus community is for Wake Forest, the Writing Center saw an opportunity to invite students to participate in a variety of ways.
The Writing Center will ask students to share their thoughts on what the Wake Forest community is right now as well as what they think it could be in the future. They will write these ideas of community on notecards that will be posted at the event. Later, an art piece will be displayed using the notecards, and that will reside in the Writing Center.
The campus is encouraged to participate in Write My Community on social media by using the hashtags #writemycommunity and #wfu (together, if possible).