By Kristen Shrewsbury Summer consultations have taken a new shape for ELLS this year.  When a few students were heading abroad and taking online JMU classes this May, I was excited to try using Skype and Google docs for consultations.   We set up times to meet via email and then both logged onto Skype  Read more »

by Kristen Shrewsbury Writing – the MWC is a group that brings people together for many reasons and at many stages as writers.  I am consistently surprised about how my students get here and what they want to do.  This morning I am happy to have a native English speaker here, a bilingual student who  Read more »

By Kristen Shrewsbury I check my phone for the time and see a text from Ahmad, “I am running 10 minutes late.”  Rain and late busses don’t touch my good mood: we are writing today.  Pulling up the blog site, checking over the posts from last semester, I find myself grinning and giddy.  I have  Read more »

By Kristen Shrewsbury Today we have a new writer, Cecilia.  I am happy that the bulk email generated interest in the community, as so many of our writers have graduated recently.  Her arrival has inspired me to reflect on the iterations of this community. The founders in spring 2009 wanted to work on writing by  Read more »