New! Check out the first issue of the Michigan Writing Centers Association Newsletter. Many thanks to the Newsletter Staff: Ann Russell, Frances FitzGerald and Melanie Keyser of Madonna University

The 2008 East Central Writing Centers Association will take place at Ohio State University April 11-12.
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Proposals for the 2008 International Writing Centers Association conference (Las Vegas, October 30 - November 1) are due March 15.
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Has your contact information changed? Please visit the Membership link to view your current contact information. Use the Contact Us link or send a message to penninj@lcc.edu to inform us on any changes.

If you have an announcement about an upcoming event or an accomplishment within your writing center that you would like included in this space, please submit it via the Contact Us link in the red column. We welcome your contributions.

Tutor Training Resources

This section of the website will undergo further development. We would like to hear from our general membership regarding the types of resources most useful to feature here. If you have suggestions, please use the Contact Us link in the red column to the right.

We have begun collecting documents that might be useful for tutor training (You will find links below). Also, please encourage your tutors to subscribe to our new tutor listserve, mitutornet!

Tutor Training Documents

"Tutoring Writing," Contributed by Southwestern Michigan College (.pdf format. Will open in Adobe Acrobat)

"Writing Center Training Schedule and Reading Assignments," Conttributed by Lansing Community College (.pdf format. Will open in Adobe Acrobat)

Tutor Listserve: mitutornet

The MWCA's tutor listserve, mitutornet, is used for discussions about peer tutoring, cross-institutional training, and informal mentoring. Tutors, please be aware that although we ask that this listserve be dedicated to your needs, we do not have control over who joins this listserve. In other words, there may be a few directors lurking here!

Instructions for Subscribing to and Using mitutornet

To subscribe

Mail a message to listserv@msu.edu

In the subject of your message, type: subscribe mitutornet

In the body of the message, type: subscribe mitutornet your first name your last name

You will receive a reply letting you know you have been added to the list. Once you have been added, you can send messages to the listserve address:
mitutornet@list.msu.edu

Please note that messages will go to all of the subscribers of the list. If you want messages to go to a particular person, send them to his or her individual e-mail address. See the REVIEW mitutornet command below to obtain members’ individual e-mail addresses.

You will be sent a message explaining some of the functions that enable you to control your relationship with the listserve once you have been subscribed. These functions will allow you to sign off, set the listserve to receive no mail, get help, digest mail, and review the list of subscribers. Some of the commands you may find particularly useful are described below.

To initiate any of these commands, send the command as an e-mail message to: listserv@msu.edu. Simply type the command in the body of the message (one command per line if you use more than one).

SIGNOFF mitutornet
This will sign you off the list. Alternately, you can send a request to be removed from the list via the Contact Us link on this site.

SET mitutornet NOMail
Keeps you on the list, but you won’t get any mail from the list. To return to a “receive mail status,” reissue the command with “Mail” instead of “NOMail.”

HELP
Sends you a brief description of the most useful commands. To get a comprehensive list, use the command INFO REFCARD.

SET mitutornet MAIL DIGEST
Puts all of the individual messages from other users of this list into a digest which will appear as one mail message in the menu of mail messages you have when you enter the mail system. This is as opposed to the default, where all messages sent by the list users will appear as individual messages in your mail menu (to see the benefits of DIGEST, subscribe to a very busy list and leave town for a couple weeks!). The entire contents of the digest can be deleted at once if necessary.

REVIEW mitutornet
Gives a list of all subscribers to mitutornet and their e-mail addresses.

For more help with listserve functions, use the Contact Us link on this site or e-mail the list manager, Janet Swenson (jswenson@msu.edu), at the Michigan State University Writing Center.