MENAWCA 2011:  American University of Sharjah, UAE

February 17-18, 2011

MENAWCA 2011 Conference Announcement

MENAWCA 2011 Board and special guest Ann Mott, keynote speaker for the conference. Left to right:  Autumn Watts, Martin Holock, Jodi Lefort, Lynne Ronesi, Maria Eleftheriou, Ann Mott, Paula Hayden, Jennie Murray, Mark Hill

Conference Session Resource Archive

Keynote Address:  “Reclaiming and Recentering the Craft of Writing:  Writing Centers Raise the Bar”

Ann Mott, American University of Paris, France

The Development and Implementation of a Student-Delivered Writing Center Service at an Engineering University in the UAE

Caroline Brandt et al, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

My Way or the American Way?  Dominant Western Academia’s Effects on Establishing a University Writing Center and Finding Balance Through Native Expression 

Carolyn Morway, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University & Amanda Erickson, Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan

 

Paving the Road Towards Collaboration:  Writing Center tutors Teaching Information Literacy to ESL Students

Christine Furno, American University of Sharjah, UAE

 

Redefining the Visibility of a Writing Center

Hanouf Aljuhail & Keriyeh Ahmadi, American University of Kuwait

 

Making “Americans” of Qataris:  Reflections on Serving In a Middle Eastern Writing Center (presentation)

Making “Americans” of Qataris:  Reflections on Serving In a Middle Eastern Writing Center (paper)

Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

 

The Role of the MENA Writing Center Director (presentation) 

The Role of the MENA Writing Center Director in the Middle East-North Africa Region:  Manager, Leader, or Teacher? (paper) 

Jodi Lefort, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

 

Strategies for Teaching Second Language Writers:  Insights for the Writing Center 

John Battenburg, American University of Sharjah, UAE

 

CNAQ Writing Center and Community Outreach

Kevin Pittman, College of the North Atlantic, Qatar

 

Tutor the Tutor to Tutor the Future

Leona Ruth Wellington, University of Nizwa, Oman

 

2011 Who am I as an Arab in English? Female Arab Writing Tutors on Language and Identity 

Lynne Ronesi, American University of Sharjah, UAE

 

A New Initiative of the AUS Writing Centre:  Online Tutorials 

Maria Eleftheriou et al, American University of Sharjah, UAE

 

Writing Across the Curriculum:  Serving Writers from the Foundation Year to the Postgraduate Level in the UAEU Writing Centers

Mark Hill, Sally Ali, Charlie McCarthy, John Slocombe, & Timothy Kirk, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

 

The Writing and Research Process:  An Integrated Learning Commons Approach

Martin Holock, University of Calgary, Qatar

 

Using Web 2.0 to Enhance the Accessibility and Scope of the Writing Center

Matthew Stranach, College of the North Atlantic, Qatar

 

APA@CNAQ

Paula Hayden, College of the North Atlantic, Qatar

 

Peer Editing:  A Good Idea

Zainab Albulushy, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman