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The Well-Turned Word
Newsletter of the NC Conference of English Instructors
Rick Lewis, Sandhills CC - Editor
E-mail: lewisr@sandhills.edu		Turning New Pages
Vol. 21, No. 10
February 2002
CEI Board Meeting

     The Executive Board of the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors met at noon, Monday, January 21, at the W. B. Joyce & Co. restaurant near Central Carolina Community College.
     Agenda items included discussion of the possible scholarship and the Distinguished Service Award, planning for the spring regional meetings, discussion of the evaluations from the 2001 Fall Conference at Wrightsville Beach, and planning for our fall conference concomitant with the Instructors' Conference slated for October 13, 14, 15, 2002. More details will be available in the next edition of The Well-turned Word, the CEI newsletter.

CEI Officers and Reps

President

  • Liz Meador
Vice-President
  • Barbara Rusher
Secretary/Treasurer
  • Tom LaBelle
Membership Chair
  • Crystal Brantley
Newsletter Editor
  • Dustin Greene
CEI Online
  • Rick Lewis

Eastern Regional Reps
  • Sharon Mills
  • Bill Gural
  • Cheryl Saba

Central Regional Reps
  • Anne Helms
  • Clem Welch
  • JoAnn Buck

Western Regional Reps
  • Tom Hearron
  • Brett Wallen
  • One vacancy
 CEI Archives

     The CEI Archives section has been redesigned to include minutes of the CEI board, reports from the CEI treasurer, official publications of CEI, and teaching guides. Teachers who have effective teaching strategies are invited to submit their publication to Rick Lewis, CEI webmaster via email. Attach the Microsoft Word document file to the email message. If the document has special formatting, you may also send a printed copy to

Rick Lewis
3395 Airport Road
Sandhills Community College
Pinehurst, NC 28374
Courier: 03-43-01

You may also fax your document to Rick at 910-692-6918.

Research for Effective Comparisons

     To help your students gather data to write an effective comparison, go the to Web site of Cars.com. (This site also contains a link to PBS's "Car Talk" programs.) Here you can compare the features of different cars, including performance reviews.

CEI Regional Map

CEI now provides a searchable map of North Carolina to locate each college in each region. College addresses are also included with the map, and links to each college's Web site. Click here to view the map.

Distinguished Service Award

     At the CEI 2001 Fall Conference, the membership approved the CEI Distinguished Service Award. Click here for more information.

Minutes and Reports

      The minutes of the CEI general meeting at the 2001 fall conference, and the 2001 treasurer's report, are now available in Archives.

 Writing about Film

     "Writing about Film" is now available for CEI members only from the CEI Archives. This teaching assignment was developed by Rick Lewis, Sandhills Community College, for use in HUM 160, Introduction to film, but the assignment can also be used in any class where students are viewing a film. This assignment emphasizes the relationship between plot and theme. Students are guided through the process of analyzing plot and its relationship to theme and also through the process of writing about film. Click here to read the assignment.

Writing Guides

     Writing Guides is a new resource available from CEI online. This site contains links to the online grammar and punctuation quiz series from Capital Community College, an excellent resource for students to receive instruction and practice quizzes to develop effective grammar and sentence structure tools.
      Writing Guides also contains a link to Sentence Sense a new, interactive online textbook from Capital Community College. This is an excellent resource for students to receive instruction in writing essays and paragraphs. The site also includes practice quizzes to develop effective grammar and sentence structure tools in the context of an essay.
     If your students need a quick refresher of comma use or an expanded punctuation guide with other punctuation marks in addition to commas, Writing Guides also contains two other guides. The 6-page Punctuation Guide contains sample sentences and practice exercises with answers.

Blackboard Help
     CEI helps you remove the distance from online teaching and learning:

Central Region Meeting
     The Central Region Spring Meeting will be held March 1, 2002, at Sandhills Community College. Click here for details.