Lebanese Writer Visits the Writing Centers

On the 20th of March, the Writing Centers at Maqam and the Islamic Institute, had the opportunity to welcome Ms. Kathy Shalhoub, a Dubai-based writer, whose works include - "Life as a Labneh Lover." During her workshop, titled "Who are you anyway? A guide to discovering your true self", she discussed about developing ideas for writing fictional stories. She provided a lot of motivation to the audience, telling them that anyone can be a writer and all that was needed was hardwork, opportunity and luck. She also spoke about her life and her journey as a writer - the challenges she faced and the joy she got out of writing. She also took the time to answer questions from the audience. At the end, she distributed the prizes for the Fall 2011 Writing Center competition.

The workshop proved to be a success in inspiring all those present that writing is not just a mundane task. It could be a source of joy too!

To read an interview with Ms Kathy, look out for the next issue of our magazine, WriteNow!

The second issue of the UAEU-UGRU Writing Center Student Magazine- WriteNOW! is out and is already creating waves. After hearing all the wonderful feedback on the first issue, this time around we got many contributions from students of different faculties. And we will be happy to hear your feedback on this issue as well!

Beside the sections on Poetry, Memoirs, Did you know? and News; this issue has a new section called the 'Open Forum' where students express their opinion on any subject. Moreover, another section titled 'Sharing our Experience' gives an insight to the lives and work experience of both the peer tutors and teachers working in Writing Center.

You could always grab a copy of the magazine from the Writing Center or visit it via the link-
http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/writing_centre/images/magazineissue2dateeditedfinal.pdf

HAPPY READING!!

New Location for the Maqam Writing Center!

As oxygen is the essence of every living being, writing is the essence of university life. Here at the UAEU, we have the UAEU-UGRU Writing Centers to help all students (Faculty, ESP and UGRU) with their writing. And, you can now visit the Maqam Writing Center in its new, bigger and better location. Opening hours: Sundays-Wednesdays, 9am-4pm; Thursdays, 9am-12pm.

Come one, come all!!

How to make a Professional CV

That was the title for Graeme Shepherd's workshop that he conducted on Sunday 16th May, 2010 in the Islamic Institute Writing Center. He gave very helpful notes on how to adapt your Curriclum Vitea to different types of jobs.

If you would like to attend another workshop about that, we can arrange it to take place at a hostel once again in the near future.

We hope to see you in coming workshops ... do not miss the excitement and benefits ...

Writing Center Team,

Where writing never ends

Writing Center Workshops At The Islamic Institute

IELTS Task 1

Proffessor Dan Niles used a document camera writer, to give a hands-on example of how to write a report for a bar chart as practice for level 3 Midterm. It was a new way to illustrate the information to the students, and we could watch him as he worked through the process. He captured the students' attention with his interactive workshop, and it was interesting!

IELTS Task 2

Professor Brendan Aken works with students during his workshop review for IELTS essay writing.

ESP Essay Outline

Peer Tutors Rahmi Mabrury and AbdiMalik Yousef -aided by Professor David Christie - presented a review on Essay Outline for ESP Midterm. The students said they liked it because they worked in groups to practice wring outlines, and it helped them a lot!

Spring 2010 Creative Writing Competition

Writing is a passion for many people. So, the Writing Center is giving all UGRU and Faculty students an opportunity to present their writing abilities through the Spring 2010 Creative Writing Competition. The topic is IDENTITY and thereby, you are free to define yourself any way you like! Tell us who you are - in an essay, story, drama, poem or song. Winners will not go home empty-handed!! Give pen to your personality and go for it.

Special Guests From Japan

"Konnichiwa..! Genki desuka?"

…which means, "Hi, how are you?" in Japanese - these are some words that we have learned from Japanese Students.

What?! Japanese Students? Where?!

Yes, on Thursday the 4th March 2010, the Writing Center at the Islamic Institute was visited by special guests from Japan; they are students that belong to the Japan GCC Student Association of students (J-GAS), and they are Ienobu Kaneko, Yayoi Kodama, Maki Zushi and Atsushi Fujioka.

Japan GCC Student Association of students is a non-profit organization/inter-university society established in March 2008 in Tokyo. This association is promoting the cultural exchange and mutual understanding between students/youth of Japan and GCC countries.

We - Mrs. Jennie and peer tutors - had a fascinating discussion with them about the histories of our countries and our educational systems. We all introduced ourselves and we were exchanging many ideas about Japanese and UAE cultures.

Really, it was unforgettable moment because we got a lot of new information and knowledge about Japan from Japanese people themselves.

Arigato Gozaimasta...!!

Sayonara...!!