Lauren Zane's Weblog

This week has been one of the busiest weeks of the semester and possibly my life.  So much is happening right now.  I have been accepted to graduate school, offered another internship, received the Charles F. Brooks Award for Technical Writing and got a new job.  There are less than 2 weeks left in the [...]

Yesterday I submitted a draft of Assignment 4 (my article) to my advisor and today she wrote back with her comments and feedback (which was really helpful).   Now I am going to revise and edit the piece before submitting it for grading and/or publishing.  I have a few more additions to make and I need [...]

Last week was a pretty slow week in terms of my article, but this week the pace should be picking back up.  I need 1 more student interview and my data should be complete for the story, having 4 sources of information now.  I am still drafting and revising my drafts, but there are gaps [...]

After my second visit to the Writing Center, Kate provided me with a report of the Writing Center’s recent accomplishments and gave me some more information about the changes and improvements going on in her department and in Tutoring & Learning Services.  I also conducted two student interviews which were very beneficial to my story [...]

This week I will be conducting a few interviews with students at the Writing Center after their sessions with consultants.  I will be asking them the following questions:

Why did you come to the Writing Center today?
Which project have you brought with you to work on and why?
How did you heard about the Writing Center?
Have you [...]

In preparing for my article I have been researching proper techniques and guidelines for journalistic writing and news reporting.  I have also obtained an unpaid internship through the USF Oracle, which is a daily student newspaper distributed in printed and online forms on USF’s Tampa campus.  I have received my first story assignment, which is [...]

Hello classmates and instructors!  I hope everyone is having a good week and staying healthy before Spring Break next week!  I am still getting over an upper respiratory infection that I had last week, and I know our professor was ill as well as just about everyone I know.  I guess it was just going [...]

For my article on the writing center, my main contact person is Kate L. Pantelides, Writing Center Coordinator, University of South Florida..  I have asked her to meet with me for an interview and she has agreed.  We will be meeting on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.  I will be asking her [...]

This week I did some preliminary research on the writing center.  I found a great deal of information on their website.  I contacted the writing center coordinator, Kate Pantelides, and I set up an interview with her on Tuesday, February 23rd.  I plan on asking her a few prepared questions and then just chatting with [...]

My name is Lauren and I am blogging about my projects and experiences in a new course at USF called Senior Seminar in Professional and Technical Writing.   In this course we had the opportunity to choose from three professional tracks in which to focus our studies this semester.  Those tracks are: Business writing, Freelance writing [...]