: Workshops and Tutorials :
TUTORIALS
College Composition
Description: A refinement of grammatical, mechanical, and usage principles including an overview of the strategies of paragraph and essay development. Review use of library research methods for primary and secondary sources to produce documented, well-argued academic papers.
Instructor: Robin Littell, Visiting Writing Instructor
e-mail: writing@antiochcollege.org
Winter Hours:
Monday 9 - 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday 12 - 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday 6 - 8:00 p.m.
Friday 9 - 11:00 a.m.
Instructor: Gariot Louima, Writing Institute Coordinator
e-mail: glouima@antiochcollege.org
Hours:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: By Appointment
Bios: Robin Littell teaches English Composition courses at Clark State Community College and Rhodes State College. Her goal is to enable students to discover, develop, and refine the skills needed to create well-crafted, effective essays. She's also taught Developmental Writing & Reading and Study Skills courses that help support student success. Robin holds a B.A. in psychology from The Ohio State University and an M.A. in English from National University.
Gariot Louima is a former journalist who has reported for The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, and The Palm Beach Post. His short stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Carte Blanche, and he was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. He holds a B.S. in journalism and creative writing from the University of Miami, where he edited the biweekly newspaper, The Miami Hurricane; an M.S. in management from Nova Southeastern University; and an M.F.A. in writing and literature from Bennington College, where he was co-fiction editor for the summer 2010 edition of the Bennington Review. Gariot taught College Essay Writing, Introduction to College English, and College Preparatory Writing Skills at Broward College. He is Antioch College's chief communications officer and Writing Institute coordinator.
FALL JOURNALISM WORKSHOPS
The Problems and Ethics of Journalism
Instructor: Jeffrey Alan John, PhD, Visiting Scholar
e-mail: writing@antiochcollege.org
FALL 2011
Friday, October 28, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 29, 11:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 30, 11:00 - 2:00 p.m.
**Lunch will be provided on Saturday and Sunday. Please register your attendance so we can order your meal.
Description: What’s news?
No, really. How do journalists decide what will be called the news? For that matter, what is a journalist? These and other questions will be examined in The Problems and Ethics of Journalism, a program of the Antioch College Writing Institute to be offered October 28-30, 2011. Guided by educator, journalist and author Dr. Jeff John, workshop participants will critically evaluate news media, make content decisions, and speculate about information technologies. By this examination of journalism’s past and present, participants will attempt to discern its role in our society's future.
The workshop will include a discussion of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It (New Press, 2011), edited by Robert W. McChesney.
Bio: Jeffrey Alan John is an associate professor teaching journalism in the department of communication at Wright State University. He is co-author of A Bird in Your Hand: A Story of Ambiguous Justice, a non-fiction account that follows the troubled lives of two men convicted of the murder of a police officer in Xenia, Ohio. He also has written numerous articles as a freelance magazine writer and as a scholar examining local news, college student media and the use of visual media. John has been a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and public relations writer. He holds a PhD in mass communication and master’s in visual communication from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s in magazine journalism from Bowling Green State University. A Dayton native, John lives in Bellbrook, Ohio, with his wife, Karin Avila-John, and triplet sons in their second year of college.
Writing News and Features
Instructors: Liz F. Kay and John-John Williams IV, Visiting Writers
e-mail: writing@antiochcollege.org
FALL 2011
Friday, November 18, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 19, 11:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 20, 11:00 - 4:00 p.m.
**Lunch will be provided on Saturday and Sunday. Please register your attendance so we can order your meal.
Description: This workshop is designed to give students an understanding of the elements required to research and write a good news or feature story for publication in a newspaper or magazine.
Bio: Liz F. Kay is a journalist with more than 10 years of experience reporting and writing for daily newspapers about education, religion and consumer issues, as well as breaking news. Liz was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times as part of METPro, a journalism training program, before moving to the Baltimore Sun in 2002. Since then, she has worked in several of the paper’s suburban bureaus and on the metro desk, covering beats including education and religion. Liz now writes about consumer issues and retail for The Sun’s business desk and is the main contributor to Consuming Interests, a blog about personal finance and saving money. Liz is a native of the Bronx and graduated from the University of Rochester with a bachelor's in neuroscience and a journalism minor.
John-John Williams IV oversees the fashion coverage for The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Sun Sunday Magazine, and b, the newspaper's free weekly. In his weekly column, "The Fashion 5," he writes about popular fashion trends and happenings. Previous to joining the features desk, John-John worked on the Sun's education beat for five years. His reporting included coverage of the K-12 beat and the launch of the paper's first education blog, "InsideEd." He also initiated the paper's first high school journalism program. John-John has reported for the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, where he covered two school systems; the Argus Leader, where he reported on law enforcement; and the Chicago Tribune, where, as an intern, he split his time between the Metro desk and features. John-John has a bachelor’s in journalism from Howard University.
ARTIST'S WORKSHOP
Workshop with Nikki McClure
Presented in conjunction with the Herndon Gallery exhibition Nikki McClure: Cutting Her Own Path, 1996-2011
Registration required. Write to Sara Black at sblack@antiochcollege.org.
FALL 2011
Saturday, December 3, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Bio: Based in Olympia, Washington, McClure has spent fifteen years creating compelling narratives by cutting into black paper with an X-Acto knife. Her delicate and sculptural “carved paintings” connect personal experiences to collective memory through a celebration of current and traditional models of self-sufficiency, resourcefulness and participation in community. In addition to a calendar print run of 17,000, McClure’s books have been published by Sasquatch Books and Chronicle Books. She also is the writer/illustrator of four children’s books published by Abrams Books, including The New York Times bestseller All in a Day (2009) by Cynthia Rylant.
