[Englecturers] Follow-up: Request for help revising the St. Martin's Guide to Writing - Part 2

[Rise Axelrod]

Hi Everyone,

I hope your grading is proceeding fairly painlessly.

On May 19, I sent out a request for your help as I revise the St.
Martin's Guide (see below).  Now I am writing to tell you that I
scheduled a meeting on Tuesday, June 17, at 12 noon in the conference
room. Please let me know if you can attend because I will be bringing
some food and water for the group.

I hope you can attend this meeting. If not, perhaps we can find a
different time to meet. Please let me know if you are interested.

If you do attend, please bring the 8th edition of the Guide. I want to
share with you some of my ideas for revision and also to look with you
at various sections of the Part I Assignment chapters to discuss how
they could be made more usable and productive.

I hope to schedule another meeting on the new Explaining Opposing
Positions chapter, and perhaps other meetings on some of the other
chapters.

If I do not see you at one of these meetings, I hope you have a
delightful summer. My sabbatical is over and I will be with you again
in the Fall.

Best,
Rise


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rise Axelrod <rise.axelrod at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Subject: Request for help revising the St. Martin's Guide to Writing - Part 2
To: englecturers at lists.ucr.edu, gsa-english at lists.ucr.edu
Cc: Teri Carter <teri.carter at ucr.edu>


Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I hope you received my earlier email in which I spelled out how you
can help me find professional and student essays for the next edition
of the St. Martin's Guide to Writing and how I can compensate you for
your help. In this email, I would like to invite you to attend one or
more workshops where we will discuss ideas I am considering for
revising the Guide. I am eager to get your reaction to my ideas, but I
am even more interested in learning what in your experience of
teaching the Guide works well and what needs to be improved.
I know this is a busy time of the quarter. I imagine some of you would
prefer to wait until after finals, whereas others may not be available
after grades are turned in. So I thought we could schedule several
different meeting times during the month of June. By May 27, please
send Teri Carter the days and times you can meet and I'll get back to
you with the schedule of meeting times and places.
Through Bedford/St. Martin's, I can pay you $25 for each meeting you
attend. I hope that these meetings help me identify specific areas of
the Guide to revise and also identify people who will be able to help
me make some of these revisions. Everyone who plays a role in revising
the Guide will be compensated and acknowledged for their
contributions.
I very much appreciate your willingness to share your insights. If you
would like to discuss this request, email me  at rise.axelrod at ucr.edu.
Sincerely,
Rise
--
Rise B. Axelrod
McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence
Director of Composition
Department of English
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
rise.axelrod at ucr.edu


-- 
Rise B. Axelrod
McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence
Director of Composition
Department of English
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
rise.axelrod at ucr.edu