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Fall ID1 Workshop Series

In the fall, the Center for Speaking, Writing, and the Image (the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023's writing center) offers an acclaimed series of interactive workshops led by a cohort of current °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023 sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The series is practical, hands-on, informal, and designed to level the playing field by supporting first-years as they navigate the transition from high school to the varied rhetorical contexts of college, from speaking to writing to working with data and visual rhetoric. 

All students are welcome (you don't need to be a first-year or a °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023 student--visitors from the other 5Cs are invited as well!) to join us to talk about how classes are going and learn strategies for adjusting to the many new kinds of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and research that you're being asked to do in college. 

What will the workshops be about?

The topics below are planned for the Fall 2024 workshop series and have been developed based on feedback from past students about what they found most challenging in their first year of college. We are also open to requests from faculty or students for additional topics that they would find helpful. Reach out to cswim@pomona.edu or stop by to talk about your ideas and collaborate with us to develop a plan for in-class sessions or other workshops available to the broader °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023 community. This series is offered every fall, and we regularly update the topics covered to respond to student needs.

To stay up-to-date about these and other special events sponsored by the CSWIM and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023's Writing Program, follow @. 

ID1 Write-in! Friday, November 15 (noon to midnight). Join fellow first-years to work on those final projects in community! The CSWIM will be open from noon till midnight with pizza, snacks, coffee, and activities to help you de-stress. Workshop Cohort Partners will be on hand to talk about your writing or other projects, but you're also welcome just to stop by, hang out, and write with friends.

Follow for updates about this ID1 Workshop Series, orientation book tie-in events, and other workshops and special events this academic year. For every event you attend this fall, you can get a stamp on the Fall 2024 CSWIM Special Events map and win an entry in a raffle for prizes from 2 Disneyland tickets to local eatery gift cards to Cambodian art prints, Zip Car credits, CSWIM swag, and more! The drawing will be held at the Long Night Against Procrastination Write-in on Sunday, November 24, 2024. 

General Types of Support We Provide

The CSWIM helps students take their writing, oral communication, and visual projects to the next level. We provide free one-on-one consultations with Writing, Speaking, and Image Partners: fellow °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023 students who are trained to help their peers find their voice, develop ideas, unpack assignment guidelines, navigate different genres, and work on projects at any stage of development, from brainstorming to polishing a final draft. 

We offer:

If you have never been to the CSWIM, begin by registering an account with our . 

• Scheduled online and in person, 7 days a week. 
• Drop-in consultations. In-person, typically Sunday-Thursday 8-10 pm. (Drop-in times are marked on our )
• Attached Writing, Speaking, and Image Partners, who collaborate with faculty to provide one-on-one support for students in a specific course. 
• Regular (weekly or twice-monthly) meetings with Writing, Speaking, or Image Partners to help you develop your communication skills and strategies over time.

Our Partners can help you:

• Make sense of an assignment
• Develop your ideas, thesis, or argument
• Reflect on or writing or preparation process and try out new strategies
• Organize and structure your writing, oral communication, or visual projects
• Refine introductions, conclusions, transitions, and body paragraphs
• Design more effective sentences, think about sentence-level language choices, and become more attuned to your own style
• Identify the places in your writing or other projects where you can clarify your message so that it communicates effectively with your intended audience

You can bring us:

• Written and oral assignments for any course, including lab reports and presentations
• Professional writing, including personal statements, fellowship, job, and grad school applications, and cover letters
• Papers in other languages, creative writing, STEM writing, senior thesis, and other projects. Look for the "Limit to" menu at the top of the scheduler to find appointments with Partners by these and other specific focus areas.

We are located in Smith Campus Center, Suite 148, across from the Living Room and next to Edmunds Ballroom on the ground floor. Contact us at CSWIM@pomona.edu.