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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. 11
March 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. However, since the fall Instructors Conference has now been cancelled, discussions are underway for the usual stand-alone CEI Fall Conference or one to be held in conjunction with the NCCCFA. More details will be available in the next edition of The Well-turned Word, the CEI newsletter or in the April issue of CEI News.
     The next CEI Board meeting will be at noon, Friday, April 12, at the W.B. Joyce & Co. restaurant in Sanford.

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

Blackboard Help
     CEI helps you remove the distance from online teaching and learning: These sections have been updated this month with new information about creating quizzes and surveys in a Blackboard course.
Eastern Region Meeting
     The Eastern Region Spring Meeting will be held April 1, 2002, at Wayne Community College. Click here for details.
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.

Essay Basics

     To help your students understand the basics of writing an essay, CEI now provides a new site titled Essay Basics. This site contains links to the components of an effective essay, including examples and application exercises for all aspects of writing an effective essay.

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. In addition, CEI provides a new list of CEI members by region, also including a map. Click here for the CEI list of members by region.

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.

New Poetry Site

      The "Resources" link at the top of each CEI page will take you the Libraries and Search Engines site. The "Literature" link will take you to the Modern American poetry site in the Poetry section of L&SE.

 Central Region Meeting

     The CEI 2002 Central Region Spring Meeting was held at Sandhills Community College on March 1. Jenna Call, Samantha Fey, and Jill Lahnstein — English instructors at Cape Fear Community College — presented "Jumping In: Reading, Writing, and Thinking in ENG 095." Forty instructors from eleven different community colleges learned many effective techniques for integrating reading, writing, speaking, and collaborative learning. Marilyn Freeman, English Department chair at Cape Fear, answered questions about administering this approach to developmental education.

     Instructors learned how to design classroom instruction to "provide a creative, constructive, and nonthreatening environment in which students forge a new understanding of written texts."

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.
     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.

      As of March 17, 2002, "Writing Guides" now contains a new section on Essay Basics to help your students understand and practice the essential components of writing an effective essay.