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We embraced our geek today with Curtis and Joel from @VCUTechServices over workflows and PHP. #vcugeek #embraceyourgeeknessday #vcu
We embraced our geekness today with Curtis and Joel from @VCUTechServices over workflows and PHP.
Mark your calendars! VCU Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) will be hosting special events honoring Hispanic Heritage Month 2015. Check out the flyer and visit their page to find out more! http:www.omsa.vcu.edu
The Commonwealth Times has created this useful infographic with everything you need to know for watching the UCI Road World Championships. Enjoy!
Upcoming: Meet VCU Author, Poet David Wojahn
September 16, 2015
David C. Wojahn, Professor of English, will talk about his new book, From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2015).
In his second volume of essays on poetry, David Wojahn seeks to examine the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the cultural, technological, and political transformations of our turbulent era. Each of the essays in this book makes an impassioned and nuanced argument against the so-called marginalization of poetry in contemporary American culture. David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Interrogation Palace (2006), which was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
September 16, 2015 7.00 pm Multipurpose Room, Second Floor (room 250), Cabell Library Admission is free and all are welcome!
Sponsored by the Humanities Research Center
Sneak peak of this week’s Commonwealth Times paper. How cool is this cover? @theCT
Making the Transition from High School to College Writing
by Lauren Boasso
Photo courtesy of Redd Angelo
At summer orientation, I spoke with several students who asked me the same excellent question: how is high school writing different from college writing? They knew their first semester courses would require a significant amount of writing and research and they wanted to begin preparing for the challenges they would face. Although each high school prepares its students in different ways, my Writing Center colleagues and I came up with a few key differences for incoming students to keep in mind.
In college, you need to have a clear understanding of the difference between summary and critical analysis, and recognize that argumentative papers focus on the latter. Analytical papers provide an opportunity to explore your own interpretation of an idea, which you back up with evidence. Unlike high school, college is less about right and wrong answers, and more about having something significant to say.
On a similar note, instead of worrying about the “correct” number of paragraphs for essays, focus instead on the argument you want to develop. We rarely see the five-paragraph essay in the college context. Ask yourself: does each paragraph make a claim, provide evidence to support that claim, and include your own reasoning? If it is missing any of these elements, the paragraph is incomplete. Rather than stressing about how long your introduction should be, think about communicating your main points as clearly as possible.
One of our favorite mantras here in the Writing Center is “show don’t tell.” If you simply tell your reader they should believe your argument, you are not going to convince anybody. However, if you provide evidence and reasoning, you are showing that your argument has substance, and your writing will be persuasive. Evidence is central to college writing. More emphasis is placed on the quality of the sources you use, therefore you are responsible for verifying their credentials (i.e. Who are they? What kind of research have they done? What have they published?). Wikipedia may be a good starting point to learn about a subject, but because you often cannot verify the credentials of the authors, Wikipedia articles do not function as acceptable sources for academic research essays.
Finally, college is a time to ask questions for which you don’t know the answers. Take every opportunity to investigate new topics and ideas. If you approach a research paper with a solution in mind, you aren’t conducting real research. If you know the answer, you are simply confirming your opinion. True research begins with a question and ends with an argument only after investigating every side of the story. Focusing on what you already know can be boring, and you will miss an opportunity to discover something new that captures your interest.
To make an appointment at the Writing Center, go online at go.vcu.edu/ucme, call us at (804) 828-4851, or stop into the Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Avenue. Good luck and happy writing!
Lauren Boasso is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media, Art & Text program at VCU.
Wonderful story! Help us congratulate recent H&S graduate Michelle Taylor on her amazing discovery: (Repost @michellenumi) ・・・ "What an incredible honor, that I have been given— to share my story to VCU News and the Richmond Times Dispatch. Please take time to read more about my continuous archaeological and genealogical research (link in my bio). Special thanks to my supportive family, especially my mom and my professors, Dr. Bernard K. Means (@virtualcurationlab) and Dr. Mark D. Wood. I had a vision and they helped bring it to the forefront. This is only the beginning. Also, I would like to applaud Mr. Michael Paul Williams and Mr. Brian McNeill (@vcuchs) for writing these two incredible pieces. #DigMontpelier #VCU🐑" #RamProud #MakeItReal #VCUCHS @vcualumni #vcualumni @vcuworldstudies
Making a lot of progress on the pedestrian bridge at Franklin & Shafer. #theworldsatvcu #UCI #Richmond2015 🚴🏽
Cornel West greets guests prior to his talk at the Siegel Center, including Dean Baski, Richard Godbeer, director of the Humanities Research Center, and Kimberly Brown, chair of vcu-gsex & interim chair of vcuafam.
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Come out to see some poets from goodclearsound and the Ram community at Java Mic Night on Saturday, September 12. Email Ladera Gibbs at [email protected] if you are interested in performing.
Hello everyone we will be having an interest meeting Friday, Academic Learning Commons room 1100. Here’s a flier that you can share with your peers folks. If yuou know someone who is remotely interested in slams,CUPSI,volunteering,performing,mcing. Please invite them to this events or share inquiries to the [email protected].
Upcoming: HRC Speaker Series - Cornel West
September 3, 2015
“Invoking Our Collective Memory”
On September 3, Cornel West, one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals and a tireless champion of racial justice, will launch the series with a keynote address. Dr. West has written nineteen books, including Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV and NPR radio shows. Dr. West’s passionate commitment to reaching a wide variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., bearing witness as a public intellectual to loving justice, makes him an ideal choice for the launch of our fall speaker series, Race, Citizenship, and Memory in the South. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Division for Inclusive Excellence, and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
Free and open to the public. No ticket is required.
September 3 6.00 pm Siegel Center
Students shine at local underground music festival
VCU senior Marques “M.arques B.erry” Berry, an English major, and sophomore Jake Barkley, a creative advertising major, made their Epic Fest debuts this summer.
Marques and Jake performed a set together at the first event, Epic Art Battle. While both students plan to pursue careers in music, they believe their academic studies are strengthening their artistic pursuits.
Relatives of the American teacher shot during last week's French train attack say they're not the least bit surprised by his heroism.
VCU alumnus Mark Moogalian (B.S.'88/H&S) is among the heroes who courageously disarmed a gunman on a train in France last week.
The French president praised Mark for his "courage" in intervening during the attack. Mark is currently recovering in a french hospital; we wish him a speedy recovery.
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