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WILL Lab — Writing, Innovation, Learning & Language Laboratory

@ the University of Lisbon (ULisboa)

WILL Lab aims to help students work on their writing assignments and to develop their critical thinking. With the help of Professor Marilyn Zucker, from Stony Brook University, U.S.A., we are going to offer a series of preliminary encounters with students interested in helping us launch this innovative project.

Students’ input is going to be crucial at this point, to help us evaluate our ideas and create the best writing laboratory at the service of our academic community.

We will have 9 individual encounters with volunteer students. To participate you should:

1) bring a printed copy of one of your current essays, written in English (from 2 to 4 pages);

2) this should be a work in progress that will be subjected to assessment;

3) please, bring the course syllabus and the guidelines to your essay, so that the team working with you may understand exactly what the Professor who asked you this piece expects you to achieve.

The nine 45 minute individual meetings will take place on the following dates and schedules:

April 7, Thursday, 2-5 pm

Slot 1 — 2-2.45 pm

Slot 2 — 3-3.45 pm

Slot 3 — 4-4.45 pm

April 11, Monday, 1-4 pm

Slot 4 — 1-1.45 pm

Slot 5 — 2-2.45 pm

Slot 6 — 3-3.45 pm

April 13, Wednesday, 1-4 pm

Slot 7 — 1-1.45 pm

Slot 8 — 2-2.45 pm

Slot 9 — 3-3.45 pm

Professor Marilyn Zucker, an experienced teacher of writing who has also taught personal narrative at our faculty, will generously donate her expertise and discuss your text with you. She will focus on higher order concerns (structure, paragraphs, coherence, organization of ideas, etc.). Professor Diana V. Almeida will also be present during these sessions, to learn and observe.

At the end of this communal experience, we will have a round table, to get the students’ feedback, in order to better structure WILL Lab.

It will take place on April 15, 12 am-1.30 pm.

We will discuss the following questions:

How useful was the tutoring experience?

Was it more useful on a grammatical or textual level?

Would you consider coming back to another individual session?

Did this change your perception of the academic writing process?

Do you believe that opening a writing center at the ULisboa would be a good idea?

What are your suggestions about the functioning of WILL Lab?

Thanks for your interest in this project and make sure you sign up with a reachable email address so that appointments can be confirmed!