{"id":4540,"date":"2014-09-02T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T06:39:08","slug":"writing-centre-orientations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/09\/02\/writing-centre-orientations\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Centre orientations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our data on usage show that students who receive orientations to the Writing Centre in their courses use it more often and more effectively. We therefore encourage faculty in all areas to request a brief (5-10 min) orientation for students in the first weeks of classes.<\/p>\n<p>We offer orientations to students in any course and at any level. Orientations can be tailored to your classroom and discipline and inform students about what the Writing Centre does, how we can help students become successful in their writing assignments, and how to make appointments at the Centre and use its resources (e.g. handouts and discipline-specific writing guides).<\/p>\n<p>Orientations can be booked by emailing <a href=\"mailto:\/\/writing.centre@ufv.ca\">writing.centre@ufv.ca<\/a> or by calling the Centre at local 4282.<\/p>\n<p>Please book your in-class orientation by Sept 10. When booking, please let us know<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 your course name<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 section number<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 classroom number<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 date and time you\u2019d like us to come by.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With best wishes for a productive semester,<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Gloria Borrows at <a href=\"mailto:gloria.borrows@ufv.ca\">gloria.borrows@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">09\/11\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our data on usage show that students who receive orientations to the Writing Centre in their courses use it more often and more effectively. We therefore encourage faculty in all areas to request a brief (5-10 min) orientation for students in the first weeks of classes. We offer orientations to students in any course and &#8230; <a title=\"Writing Centre orientations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/09\/02\/writing-centre-orientations\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}