Adelphi University Writing Center

TIP TUESDAYYY :)

Brilliant Motivation on a Monday!

Fun Friday!!! Enjoy your weekend :)

tonight!!! Take Back the Night! We stand and march in solidarity! These pics are also great TBT and Tutor Thursday themes! #AUTBTN

Tip Tuesdays !!!

Stay motivated and persistent in your course no matter where it leads you. Refrain from adopting a common mantra "to just go with the flow" because only dead fish do!

Show your tutor love by checking out both Vinny's and Enas's photographs exhibited through April 24! We're imagining that Roland Barthes would have something to say about us posting photographs of their respective photographs! ;)

who, what, where, when, why ?

Word Wednesday!!! Reach out of your comfort zone :)

which word Wednesday ?!

Scholarship can be both FIERCE and FUN! Adelphi's Marsha J Tyson Darling, Ph.D. will be on the Black Intellectual Panel: The Black Intellectual in Contemporary America on April 10. http://nationalactionnetwork.net/

Tutor Thursday! Hello, my name is Bryan Montanari, and I am a graduating senior Philosophy and English Literature double major. Why not join me tonight, Thursday, April 3, for the third installment of the Philosophy Film Series. The dramatic thriller "The Fifth Estate" will be hosted by Professor Shawn Kaplan and stars Benedict Cumberbatch. The film is based upon the real-life story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and is told from the perspective of a journalist who worked closely with Assange. TIME: Thursday, April 3rd, 7:00 PM PLACE: Science Hall, Room 322 PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!

Motivational Monday :)

Motivation Monday for sure!

What's more motivating than finding your voice in your research and writing! We're here for YOU! Stop by the Center or schedule an appointment. Or, seek feedback via our online services.

Looking to improve your vocabulary, spelling, or writing skills? Check out: http://www.spellingcity.com/spelling-games-vocabulary-games

Tutor TBT! Then tutors-in-training, Samantha and Emily, led tutor training seminar conducting discourse analysis of two academic disciplines. After successful Adelphi careers as students and peer writing tutors, Samantha's teaching Physics at a local high school while Emily's using her communication and writing skills to advocate for all disabled people!

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere." -- Anne Lamott Schedule an appointment or drop-in; peer writing tutors can help you begin your first effort and move beyond it!

Word Wednesday: Leadership www.bit.ly/OUE2gF

Tip Tuesday :) Remember always quality over quantity!!!

Motivational Monday:

Fun Friday: Enjoy Spring Break Everyone!!!

Word Wednesday!!!

Tip Tuesday: Think outside the box!

Tip Tuesday: Do you have a quick question about MLA, APA or Chicago style citations, but can't make it to one of our locations for an appointment? Visit Purdue OWL! Check out the link below: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Members of our campus community get it, of course! http://www.tickld.com/x/20-jokes-that-only-intellectuals-wi

Feeling motivated to create a win-win situation? Try this!

Motivational Monday: You’ve almost made it to Spring Break, keep up the great work!

Think you have the right stuff? http://www.ted.com//angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_succes

Better question: Do you know when Spring Break starts because I have a paper due before my professor leaves town! Stop in to meet with a peer writing tutor or use our online services before 5 p.m. Friday, March 14. All Writing Center services and locations are closed March 15 - 23.

Tuesday's Writing Tip: Do you have a quick question about MLA or APA citations but can’t contact the writing center? Visit Purdue OWL! Check out the link below:... https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Definitely wrong word choice!

Word Wednesday: Today’s word: quandary (n.): 1. uncertainty about what to do 2. Perplexity Are you in a state of quandary with your paper? Make an appointment with the Writing Center!

Peer tutoring aside, Jason E. is also an avid badminton and chess player! Recently, we caught him reading Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess to prepare for the process of starting a chess club at Adelphi! #tutorthursday

Who do we know in Swirbul to get this rolling? ;)

Thirty writing tips from your favorite hipster, Jack Kerouac: http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPa/index.php//464

A quote from Jacques Derrida: "Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school." Wishing the weekend spilled into today? You're not the only one in whom school instills a sense of dread. Derrida longed for the weekend too, and yet he went on to publish over forty books as a lifelong scholar and university professor. So, keep on keeping on. You never know.

One strategy to get motivated is to step outside of your comfort zone! Check out this example! :) http://www.nbcolympics.com//russian-police-choir-performs-

A fun today and read a book from your childhood! http://www.buzzfeed.com//this-video-of-neil-gaiman-reading

It's Fun Friday on a Happy Valentine's Day! #sayitwithhistory

What word best describes your view or personality traits in light of another impending snow storm? *ugsome (horrid, loathsome) *gregarious (1.sociable, fond of others' company 2. pertaining to a flock or herd)

Tuesday's tip is both fun and informative! DailyWritingTips is a great site for some fun, interesting, and useful information about writing. Come to the Writing Center for some great tips on how to become a better writer! http://www.dailywritingtips.com/

Need some motivation to make it to mid-week? We've got just the thing! The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King, On Writing Need help getting started? Have no fear, the Writing Center is here! Come on down to the Writing Center where we can work with you and show you how to get started on your papers!

It's the birthday of Charles Dickens. His fiction eloquently renders social commentary which continues to resonate with readers today! 'This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.' --Charles Dickens

It's Fun Friday! Need a new distraction for the semester? At least make it an educational one! Check out these top word games from the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com//word-game-apps-addicted_n_8

'The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney Who better to quote when featuring Allie C. on Tutor Thursday! Allie is a fan of Disney World and is in the STEP program for elementary education. Tomorrow she will begin observing a class at Washington Rose Elementary School in Roosevelt for the course, "The Child With Special Needs." Allie will observe throughout the semester to develop a better understanding of how to attend to all of her future students' needs when she begins teaching. WC staff predict it will be a magical experience!

You've consulted the APA Style Guide and even scored a Writing Center APA handout for in-text citations and building a reference page. Can't get enough of APA ? Why not "Like" APA Style's FB page! https://www.facebook.com/APAStyle?fref=ts&rf=106868769351706

We love TUTOR THURSDAY! Check out tutor Sarah as Princess Isabella in Circle K's third annual Murder Mystery this Friday. This interactive show allows the audience to search for evidence and question the suspects. The show starts at 8pm and only costs $8, all of the proceeds go to The Eliminate Project to end maternal neonatal tetanus. This is the link to the Murder Mystery's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/214491922082681/

Yes! It's all in how you construct your argument. Schedule an appointment or stop by to see how we can help you develop your stance or argument!

It's the underpinning of another successful semester AND life!

Can't make it to our Garden City or Manhattan Center locations? No problem! Feedback from our friendly knowledgeable peer writing tutors is available ONLINE. Visit our website for more information or call us at 516-877-3296.

Tell your friends and neighbors that we're open Spring '14! Get a head start on any writing assignment by dropping in at our locations in Earle Hall, lower level and/or Swirburl Library (2nd floor). Earle Hall 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. M - R, F until 5 p.m./Swirbul M-R 6 - 9 p.m., Sat & Sun N - 4 p.m.

Peer tutor, Catherine, says she'll soon learn how to brew a proper cup of tea after receiving a gift from one of the writers she meets with regularly!

Holiday cheer was the order of the day at Adelphi's annual Holiday Party. Mary and her colleagues from the Learning Center had a blast!

Writing tutors and writing assistants, Jason, Olivia, Amber and Jordan, publicly reading their poetry at culminating event for Writing Poetry course. Creative writing , indeed!

There's still time to schedule a face-to-face appointment with a peer writing tutor through Monday, December 16. Or, access our online tutoring services through Sunday, December 15. We're here to help!!!

WE'VE BEEN SOOOOOOO BUSY that posts play second fiddle to tutoring appointments, 10-year anniversary events and finals prep! http://programs.findlay.edu//ima/meme%20hunger%20games.jpg

As as we celebrate the birth date of feminist and New York native Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in Johnstown (1815), Tuesday's tip is to remain steadfast and resilient in the face of adversity in pursuit of your dreams and aspirations; contribute, too, what writing you can to the unfolding narrative of your historical moment! Stanton said: "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php

Overwhelmed is the installment for this week's "Word Wednesday" as 35 first-year students packed the Writing Center's Earle Hall location for a book discussion of Katherine Boo's *Behind the Beautiful Forevers*! Members of the campus community were also invited to participate via a Google Hang or to post discussion questions suggestions on our FB wall! WOW!! This on the heels of Monday night's book discussion at our Manhattan Center location where both students and faculty came out to generate provocative discussion while enjoying community and snacks!

Turn 'just another manic Monday' into a truly motivational Monday this evening at 7 p.m. by joining our informal discussion of Katherine Boo's provocative *Behind the Beautiful Forevers* which won a Pulitzer Prize and is this year's AU Reads book. We'll convene at our Manhattan Campus location in the Learning and Writing Centers' Annex, Room 277. Light refreshments will be served.

Our Writing Center director Mary Wyeth returns Peer Tutoring's magical tin Elvis to Clint Gardner! Elvis is mascot to SLCC Community Writing Center. He resided at Adelphi's WC for the past two years. When our panther will return to Garden City is TBA! #ncptw2013

No matter the rainy weather it's sunny in sessions at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing!

Writing tutors prepare treats for our event. We've invited members of our campus community to stop by in author, poet or ghoul-inspired costumes to be entered into a raffle for favored texts from the last decade! Grand Prize: Harry Potter The Complete Series. Come on down!

Peer tutors, Liz and Katelyn, facilitated a combined total of 19 (out of 35) First-year Orientation Experience (FOrE) sessions at the Writing Center. Sending a big shout out to all of our amazing tutors who helped plan the session or orient the Class of 2017: Gia, Jordan, Sarah, Jennifer P., Allie, Alannah, Ana, Catherine, Jennifer L., Vinny, and Justyna.