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The act of thinking about how one thinks, writes, and learns is called what?
Metacognition
2023
The Writing Center opens on what day?
Monday, September 8th
You may have spotted this tutor's artwork in an issue of The Knight News:
August
Abbreviated CRF, tutors write and submit one in the last 10 minutes of every session:
Client Report Form
Though we learn it begins with a brainstorming phrase and ends with editing a final draft, writing center tutors know that the _____ is recursive and generally non-linear:
Writing/composition process
This multi-year collaborator of QCWC's that recruits and hire multilingual tutors who bring experience in Mandarin, Bengali, and Hindi, for example:
The Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP)
The earliest appointments offered at QCWC begin at this double digit time:
Coincidentally, these two A-named administrators happen to commute from what Queens neighborhood?
Only after a client has been called from the writing center's main phone line (or a personal number made invisible by *-6-7) and 20 minutes have passed should this status be given to a booking:
No Show
What pedagogy embraces writers' full linguistic backgrounds, rather than upholding on a single, standardized view of writing/language?
Translingual
The first Dean of Faculty at Queens College or this woman, after whom the hall where QCWC can be found is named:
Dr. Margaret V. Kiely
This day of the week, the only one QCWC doesn't offer tutoring:
Saturday
_____ may be known for leaving a riddle or a self-portrait (or both) on the dry erase board:
Nischal
After how many minutes past the start of an hour can a student no longer book that appointment's time slot?
20 minutes
Abbreviated IWCA, the predominant annual conference for administrators and tutors in our field:
International Writing Centers Association
This woman is attributed with conceiving of the modern Queens College Writing Center as a learning community, not a remediation space:
Judith Summerfield
QCWC stays open from 5p-8p on Wednesdays for this event:
Study Hall For All
What two staff members acted as group leaders for New Student Orientations over the summer?
Denique & Alifa
A 1pm to 6pm shift is entered how in PRAssist, the time reporting platform used by QC?
13:00 - 18:00
Authors Ianetta & Fitzgerald edited this popular Guide for Writing Tutors (one we often read from at QCWC!):
Oxford
In 1974, what is now the Writing Center opened in KY229 under what name?
Writing Skills Lab
When can students meet with a tutor online?
Any day and time the writing center offers tutoring is a time students can meet with a tutor online.
Welcome staff member Casey and tutor Lexy will participate in what conference this September?
Naylor Workshop on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies