English as a Second Language (ESL) Calendar


Monthly Writing and Presentation Clinics

Our next meeting will be noon to 1 pm on Thursday, 30 April, at FL2, 1001.

COMMSCI ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) WRITING CLINIC
Thursday April 30, 2009, FL2-1002
12-1 pm: group workshop
1-2 pm: individual coaching
* Do you feel that you communicate clearly, yet others ask you to explain what you wrote?
* Do your colleagues change your "perfect" writing?
* Do reviewers and/or colleagues criticize your lack of English fluency?
* Have you ever had a hard time deciding whether you should use articles and if so, which ones and where to put them? Or what tense to use where in a scientific paper?
The Communicating Science ESL Group will host a friendly, casual and productive workshop on writing skills for scientific staff for whom English is a second language. The program will be facilitated by CommSci founder Mary Golden, certified ESL coach and chief editorial assistant, Monthly Weather Review.
Mary, who teaches science in Boulder schools, is also the founding director of Cool Girls: the Boulder County Science and Art Club for Girls (www.coolgirls-scienceart.com). Cool Girls currently has an art show in Gallery II of the Mesa Lab cafeteria that will be on display through May 23.
From noon to 1:00 pm, we will discuss common grammatical challenges such as articles, verb tenses and prepositions. We will also go over any specific issues you have provided in advance. You are welcome to bring a few sentences from a current work to address as a group.
Mary will also be available for up to an hour after the workshop for individual editing and coaching.
To make the workshop its most productive, please email me your questions or the writing issues that most concern you no later than April 17.
R.S.V.P. by April 17 to jsun@ucar.edu.




We meet regularly for brown-bag lunches and special workshops to improve writing and presentation sills in a casual, supportive environment. We also arrange lectures on pronunciation and other subjects as opportunities and requests arise. Pleae email jsun@ucar.edu with suggested topics, excerpts from papers you'd like some help with.

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Table Talk is a low-pressure way to practice English conversational skills, to form relationships with each other and with native speakers of English, and to have a good time. Table Talk meets monthly at FL cafeteria.

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