How can you describe good writing? How can you describe the good sound that some bells make?

Good writing is the personal liaison between the writer and the reader that takes a reader by the hand, willing or unwilling, and leads him into new experiences of emotion or thought.

It may be a soft lullaby or a strident bellow, and he may cry, or he may laugh. It may be meaningful or absolute nonsense. It may be crude, or it may be highly polished verbal sophistication.

But one thing – it holds that reader to the last echoing word.

Lowell Brandle
St. Petersburg Times

17th ANNUAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Chip Crane, Director Writing Center English
Department, USNA; Lisa Zimmerelli, Assistant Director Effective Writing Center University of Maryland University College Park; Leigh Ryan, Director Writing Center University of Maryland.

Why Join MAWCA?

This regional organization offers unique opportunities for professional development. Ignore the negative connotations that are often linked to the term “professional development” - boring workshops, lectures that state the obvious, meetings, meetings, meetings.

MAWCA offers meaningful ways to improve your skills and to refill when you run out of gas.

Membership brings:

• Mentorship. One on one with experienced MAWCA members. Writing Center site visits.
• An active network. Improved Web site that includes Writing Center tips, snippets, and job postings
• Professional Development. 18th Annual MAWCA Conference with an appropriate Philadelphia theme of
  "Growing More Attentive to the Manner of Writing": Looking at the Writing Center through the Spectacles of Franklin” hosted by Eastern University and Cabrini College on March 30-31, 2007
  Fellowship
• We have fun doing all of the above.

Welcome Message from the President

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2006 Conference Snapshots