posted on October 20, 2009.
The National Day on Writing has been designated for October 20 this year, according to the sponsor, National Council of Teachers of English (http://www.ncte.org/dayonwriting)
OU will celebrate from Tuesday October 20 through Tuesday October 27.
Thousands of schools across the country are creating similar events and building online galleries to show student and faculty writing. The Writing Center will be highlighting OU student and faculty writing through an online writing gallery.
In addition, OU has been selected as one of only four schools nationally to collect texts for a book on writing activity in the university. Michele Eodice, Executive Director of Learning, Teaching, and Writing said the writing center here at OU was invited by Patrick Sullivan and Howard Tinberg, editors of What is College Level Writing, to contribute writing from OU to their next book, A Day in the Life of a Writing Center. OU is the only four-year public university to be included in this new collection.
The whole campus is encouraged to participate. The week long event will kick off on Tuesday, October 20 with the National Day on Writing and students and faculty will be able to contribute their writing—any kind of writing—starting at midnight October 27. For a 24 hour period, writing will be collected online (www.ou.edu/writingcenter) and in person in the writing center (Wagner Hall room 280). The first 100 submissions will be uploaded to the National Gallery of Writing (http://www.galleryofwriting.org/) and from that collection five selections will be made for the book project. Students and faculty who want to be eligible for the book project should complete the permission form available online. The OU Writing Center invites writing of every type: academic essays, poems, letters, text messages, lab reports, grocery lists, or Blog postings. “The goal is make all the writing that takes place here on any given day visible, show it off in a gallery…this will be fun way to see how much we write!” said Eodice.