News Digest

Writing workshop
The Writing Across the Curriculum program is offering a campuswide workshop on "Time-Saving Techniques for Responding to Student Writing" from noon to 1:15 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 21 in the University Union Foothill Suite. The workshop will cover such topics as using rubrics, portfolio response, the “minimal marking” technique for grammar and punctuation, lightening the paperload through low-stakes writing assignments, and how to use a “less is more” approach to responding. The workshop is open to all full- and part-time faculty and teaching assistants.

RSVP to Dan Melzer at melzer@csus.edu or 278-6925.

Bookstore celebration
The Hornet Bookstore will hold a celebration of the new school year and the new partnership with Follett Higher Education Group on Thursday, Sept. 29. It begins with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. followed by giveaways, refreshments, special discounts and prize drawings.

Details: 278-6390.

Workshop for young journalists
Topics of interest to future journalism students, advisers and parents will be the focus of the free Capital Journalism Day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 8 in Mendocino Hall.

Newspaper advisers and working journalists from the Sacramento area will lead sessions on covering controversial stories, working with printers, writing headlines and cutlines, legal issues confronting student journalists, preparing for college, photography, layout and design, and advertising and marketing. There will also be an adviser roundtable and a session on internships.

Capital Journalism Day is open to middle school and high school students, advisers and parents. It is sponsored by the Communication Studies Department, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Journalism Education Association of Northern California and J-Ideas, a journalism education institute at Ball State University in Indiana.

Registration: www.cnpa.com/outreach.

Time management workshops for students
Time management/study skills workshops for students have been scheduled for fall 2005. The same workshop is offered each week but at different times to give students a variety of times to attend.

The workshops are:
• Wednesday, Sept. 21 from 2-3 p.m. in Douglass Hall 105
• Thursday, Sept. 29 from 3-4 p.m. in Lassen 2006
• Tuesday, Oct. 4 from 4-5 p.m. in Lassen 2006
• Wednesday, Oct. 12 from 3-4 p.m. in Lassen 2006
• Thursday, Oct. 20 from 4-5 p.m. in Lassen 2006
• Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 4-5 p.m. in Lassen 1100
• Tuesday, Nov. 1 from 3-4 p.m. in Lassen 2006
• Monday, Nov. 7 from 11-noon in Douglass 107
• Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 3-4 p.m. in Lassen 2006

Details: Beth Merritt Miller at 278-7840.