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Goss at home as UWC office manager

Margarette Goss

Margarette Goss.

Margarette Goss, senior office associate, says working with students is the best part of her job.

First impressions matter. That’s why the UWC is delighted that Margarette Goss has signed on as Senior Office Associate.

In that role Goss is often the first person clients see when they walk through the door, as well as the voice they hear when calling for an appointment. Her warm demeanor and confident efficiency put everyone at ease. (more…)

  • Assessing the situation: expert says it’s essential

    Instructors who give writing assignments are all too familiar with grading students’ written work. They’re typically less familiar, though, with assessing student writing.

  • More than marginal: give your students feedback that matters

    What do you do when you’re reading a student’s paper and come upon an especially confusing passage? What if the syntax is mangled or the ideas contradictory? Do you jot words in the margin? Do you cross out redundant phrases and correct punctuation errors? Do you—ever mindful of how many more assignments you have left to read—adopt teacher shorthand? (“Sp, “Awk!”)

  • Teaching a W

    What’s it like to teach a W? The University Writing Center recently sent an informal survey to some W course instructors to get their impressions about teaching a writing-intensive class.

  • From the Director

    UWC Executive Director Valerie Balester is beginning the process of assessing the effectiveness of the W course program, an undertaking made more difficult by the organic nature of how students learn to write.

  • Research courses can get W status

    Departments wanting to offer students a research-focused, writing-intensive course (numbered 491) now have two options: one administered by an outside office and one by their own department.

  • 2nd W requirement set for incoming students

    Beginning with the 2007-08 undergraduate catalog (No. 130), a minimum of two writing-intensive courses will be required for graduation from Texas A&M University.

  • UWC opens West Campus satellite

    Getting help with their writing is now even easier for Texas A&M University students, particularly those who spend much of their time on West Campus; this spring the University Writing Center (UWC) officially opened a satellite location in room 205 of the West Campus Library.