SLWIS Newsletter - October 2017 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
• LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
• LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
ARTICLES
• SCHOLARSHIP ON L2 WRITING IN 2016: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
• CHALLENGES FACED BY SAUDI STUDENTS WRITING AT A U.S. UNIVERSITY
• USING OBSERVATION JOURNALS TO AWAKEN OBSERVATION SKILLS AND INCREASE COMFORT WITH WRITING
• A PERSONAL REFLECTION: CAUGHT IN THE AMERICAN WRITING WORKSHOPS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE WRITER
• FLIPPING ELEMENTARY PRESERVICE TEACHERS' ESL COURSEWORK: FOCUS ON TEACHING WRITING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
MEMBER PROFILES
• GRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: HADI BANAT
• GRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: KELLY J. CUNNINGHAM
• GRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JOSEPH WILSON
BOOK REVIEWS
• REVIEW OF DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC WRITING: THEORY INTO PRACTICE
• REVIEW OF ACADEMIC WRITING STEP BY STEP: A RESEARCH-BASED APPROACH
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
• SLW NEWS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
• SLWIS IS CONTACT INFORMATION

SLWIS IS CONTACT INFORMATION

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SLWIS Community Leaders 2017–2018

Chair: Nigel Caplan

Chair-Elect: Tanita Saenkhum

Past Chair: Ryan Miller

Secretary: Veronika Maliborska

Newsletter Editors: Ilka Kostka and Elena Shvidko

Community Manager: Elena Shvidko

External Web Manager: Charles Nelson

Steering Committee
2015–2018	Hee-Seung Kang	hee-seung.kang@case.edu
2015–2018	Betsy Gilliland	egillila@hawaii.edu
2016–2019	Aylin Baris Atilgan	maylinbarisa@gmail.com
2016–2019	Sandra Zappa-Hollman	sandra.zappa@ubc.ca
2016–2019	Soo Hyon Kim	soohyon.kim@unh.edu
2017–2020	Sarah Henderson Lee	sarah.henderson-lee@mnsu.edu