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Save the Date: Iswari Pandey, "Jeans and Genes: Perceptions of Language Proficiency and Citizenship among South Asian Immigrants"
Join us at 1 p.m. in SH 422 on Friday, September 15, 2017, for a conversation with CSUN faculty member Iswari Pandey, who will talk about first and second generation immigrants' perceptions of language proficiency and citizenship among the South Asian groups represented in his recent book, South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies. Iswari won the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Advancement of Knowledge Award for this work.
The New Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam: Overview for Faculty and Staff
Santosh Khadka, PhD (English; Coordinator of the WPE) will talk with the Multilingual Writers Group about changes in the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam (UD WPE), including the recent merger of non-native and native “rooms” for grading the exams and the initial outcomes of this change. He’ll also share preliminary data on pass rates for the new exam, disaggregated by native/non-native student status, and he’ll entertain our suggestions for ways to support non-native writers in their preparation for the WPE, whether by extending services available at the LRC or through some other venue. Includes Q&A. (SH 422, Wednesday, February 22, 2017. 9:30-10:45 a.m.)
Conversation Swaps at the LRC: Native Speakers and International Students
This weekly series resumes for fall 2016 on Monday, Sep. 26, 2016 at noon: Conversation Swaps at the LRC, Mondays at 12 noon. Native English speakers and international students welcome! The LRC is on floor 3, in the east wing of Oviatt library.
Writing Your Master's Thesis: A New Grad Course at CSUN?
CSUN grad students writing a thesis as part of their master's program can get some help with their writing at the Learning Resource Center (Oviatt Library, 3rd floor, east wing). But what if they could sign up for a graduate-level writing course to help them complete the thesis? That's the question under consideration in CSUN's English Department. If you'd like to share your own opinion about this possibility, email Dr. Danielle Spratt, the English Department Graduate Advisor. (9/10/16)
Reference
Lisle, Bonnie, and Sandra Mano. "Embracing a Multicultural Rhetoric." Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York: MLA, 1997. 13-26.