2008 Workshops

Workshop Saturday, April 5, 2008 [Register for this workshop]

9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Humanities 226 [UNM campus map]

Myth, Music and the Muse: Teaching Poetry Creatively

Workshop Leader:Diane Thiel, Associate Professor of English Language & Literature

Diane Thiel has taught at UNM since 2002. She is the author of several textbooks, including Writing Your Rhythm, Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres, Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry, and most recently Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction.

This workshop will offer innovative methods for teaching poetry. Class exercises will help you discover ways to spark your mind, access your memory, refine your language, and find your rhythm. The course will provide valuable ideas to carry to the classroom and to your own creative ventures. We will explore different sources of inspiration, such as music, myth, history, and art; read poems by poets such as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sherman Alexie that respond to such sources of inspiration; and address particular techniques or elements of poetry, such as diction, perspective, image, rhythm, narrative, and forms. Lunch and materials will be provided.

Workshop Saturday, April 12, 2008 [Register for this workshop]

9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Humanities 226 [UNM campus map]

Preventing Plagiarism:

Workshop Leader:Erin Lebacqz, Lecturer in English Language & Literature

Every teacher whose students write papers based on outside sources cautions them about plagiarism and teaches them rules for giving proper credit when using the work of other writers. But perhaps because students feel pressure to earn high grades, schools and colleges report increased incidence of unacknowledged borrowing, especially from sources available on the internet. Some students, not content to cut and paste from legitimate sources, purchase papers from internet or local vendors. This workshop will explore strategies teachers can use to

•  design sequenced writing assignments that make plagiarism unproductive for students.

•  coach students throughout the writing process, making plagiarism infeasible and unnecessary for students.

Lunch and materials will be provided.