Welcome to our preconvention issue of SLW News. In this issue, in addition to highlighting upcoming events at TESOL 2015, we share an article that focuses on tutor training, one on a partnership between a teacher development and an EAP class, one on current and future research on feedback in writing, and one on the 2014 Symposium on Second Language Writing. Also in this issue is a book review of a beginning-level writing text.

With this issue, we want to announce a few changes to the editorial staff.

Ilka Kostka will be moving into the position of managing editor for SLW News. She is currently an assistant teaching professor in the Global Pathways and American Classroom programs at Northeastern University and has worked with the IS as a member of both the newsletter editorial staff and the interest section steering committee. Her research interests include textual borrowing and the pedagogical potential of plagiarism detection software. She is a member of TESOL’s Book Publications Standing Committee and is the coauthor of the 2013 book Teaching Writing, as well as the 2014 book Teaching English for Academic Purposes, both published by TESOL Press. We thank her for her offer to continue to serve the IS as its newsletter editor.

We also welcome two new reviewers to our editorial staff.

Adam Clark received his MA from Azusa Pacific University and is currently an instructor at Arizona State University’s American English and Culture Program. Before going to ASU, he worked as an instructor and computer-assisted language learning coordinator for the English Language Program at Saginaw Valley State University, as an EFL instructor for several years at a variety of schools in Japan, and as a reviewer for the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation.

Ming Fang recently finished her PhD in foreign and second language education at The Ohio State University. She is currently teaching first-year writing and serves as the WAC consultant in the English Department at Florida International University. Her research interests include contrastive/intercultural rhetoric, writing across curriculum, NNEST professional development, teacher education, and qualitative research.

Finally, we hope you enjoy this issue and will consider sharing information about current pedagogy, research, and professional activities by submitting an article for our next issue.

Best,

Margi Wald (on behalf of the Editorial Staff)

SLW News Editorial Staff
Gena Bennett
Karen Best
Steven Bookman
Adam Clark
Ming Fang
Helena Hall
Ilka Kostka
Peggy Lindsey
Lilian W. Mina
Margi Wald