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Featured Student Writer Chorong Ha
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Chorong Ha is a junior from South Korea studying political science. In high school, she developed a passion for the environment and has not stopped caring about it since. Before coming to the United States, she was involved with several environmental groups, and she currently serves as a correspondent for UNEP-Angel, a Web magazine that reports on environmental issues and provides a network for sharing ideas about how to protect the environment. Chorong is also a member of the Sierra Club’s environmental and social justice leadership training program. Chorong is one of the hardest working clients we’ve seen in recent years. We sat down to ask her about her interests, development, and experiences at the center.
Read the full interview here!
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QWC Mullins Satellite
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The QWC is proud to announce the opening of our new satellite center on the main floor of the Mullins Library. Graduate tutors working by appointment and walk-in peer tutors are available to serve student writers. The Enhanced Learning Center also offers math and science tutoring. The new satellite is brought to you by a partnership of the University Libraries, the Enhanced Learning Center, and the Quality Writing Center
Graduate tutors are available M-Th, 2-8 pm, and Sun, 5-8 pm. Click here to make an appointment. Schedules for walk-in peer tutors, who help with Comp I and II essays, are posted on the top-right of our home page.
Click here for a map of the Mullins location.
Click here to check for ELC math and science tutors.
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Microsoft Word 2007 Tutoring
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Having trouble with Word 2007? The QWC offers appointments with our Word tutor Courtney Massengale. Courtney can help you solve basic Word 2007 challenges, such as document formatting, image insertion, and citation generation. To arrange a meeting with Courtney, e-mail the QWC: writcent@uark.edu. Courtney will respond with her available appointment times.
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ESL Tutor James Wright Returns from Malaysia
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The QWC welcomes back James Wright, who spent the last seven months in rural, northeast Malaysia teaching ESL and researching traditional Malay poetry. As a grantee for the J. William Fulbright Program and the Terengganu state government, James taught at a premier high school at the edge of Taman Negara, a national park encompassing one of the oldest rainforests in the world. Though happy to be back in Fayetteville, he misses the taste of fresh coconut milk and curried chicken feet. James will again work with ESL writers here at the UA, and he will lead the QWC efforts at our Mullins Satellite.
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Featured Student Writer Ayumi Fukushima
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A Bachelor of Arts candidate with a double major in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies, Ayumi Fukushima has been a regular client of the QWC for the last two years. Ayumi, who has already traveled to Kenya, recently applied for a study-abroad grant and hopes to be studying in Jordan soon. We sat down with Ayumi to talk about her career plans, her experiences as a second-language writer from Japan, and her time spent working with the Writing Center tutors.
Read the full interview here!
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QWC Tutor Wins $15,000 National Fellowship
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QWC writing tutor Chloe Honum was recently awarded a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship by The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine. The fellowships are awarded annually to five young and aspiring talents. Chloe was selected from a pool of 550 applicants. Her work will featured in the November issue of Poetry.
Read more here at Daily Headlines
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QWC Tutors Present at National Conferences
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QWC tutors lead busy academic lives, teaching two classes each semester, taking graduate courses of their own, researching and writing, and tutoring students in our Kimpel and Mullins centers. This spring, four members of our staff also found time to honor invitations to present their research at national conferences. Grant Bain, Amy Schmidt, Iris Shepard, and Eve Williams (pictured left to right) shared their work with audiences in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Ohio. The QWC is proud to celebrate their achievements. For a brief summary of each tutor/scholar’s presentation, click here.
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Featured Student Writer Jonathon Modica
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Originally from Smackover, AR, Jonathon Modica has been active across the University of Arkansas campus, from playing on the Razorback basketball team to working as a graduate assistant in the Multi-Cultural Center with the Silas Hunt Scholars. He did his undergraduate work in broadcast journalism and earned his master’s degree in advertising and public relations. He is currently working on a doctorate in higher education and plans to complete the program in the fall of 2011. Jonathon’s goal is to work as a student affairs administrator at an institution of higher education.
Read the full interview here!
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QWC:
KIMPEL 315 | 479.575.6747 | writcent@uark.edu
ELC Satellite:
GREGSON BASEMENT |
479.575.2885
MULLINS Satellite: MAIN FLOOR | 479.575.6747
Graduate Tutoring Appointments |
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