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The Writing Center's Suburban Campus Writing Groups will begin at the Naperville, Oak Forest, and O'Hare Campuses on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, and will continue until Saturday, November 14, 2009. Writers can sign up for four week sessions (Sept. 26-Oct. 17 or Oct. 24-Nov. 14), or for the full eight weeks. Groups meet on the Oak Forest, Naperville, and O'Hare Campuses from 10-11:30 am, and an additional afternoon group meets from 12:30-2 pm at Naperville.

If you are interested in joining a group or would like more information, please email the Suburban Campus Writing Groups Coordinator (be sure to include your campus and preferred session):

Tom McNamara
Suburban Campus Writing Groups Coordinator
Email: tmcnamar@depaul.edu
Phone: 312.362.6758

Goals and Values

DePaul’s Suburban Campus Writing Groups operate under the guidance of ideals valued by the University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL), challenging writers academically while respecting individual dignity. Through participation in groups, writers should encounter the composition process as a site for learning, critical inquiry, self-development, and reflection, preparing them to view learning through writing as a life-long journey. The groups strive for these principles by creating opportunities for decentered, collaborative discussion that engage writers in diverse rhetorical contexts and peer review methods, empowering them to position themselves as valuable members of the university community.

Each Suburban Campus Writing Group session is shaped to the specific projects on which participants are working, guaranteeing time for focus on each individual’s work. Contributing writers will find that all meetings allow them to constructively share their pieces in contexts like one-on-one peer feedback and group workshops, allowing exposure to different audiences and forms of collaboration. Such discussion about writing with other DePaul writers has allowed participants to better understand their composition practices and the many forms of writing they can utilize, leading to greater engagement in their discourse communities.