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From: Dalhousie Studying for Success Program
Subject: Free workshops

The Dalhousie Studying for Success Program has FREE workshops throughout the academic year aimed at helping students become more effective learners.

Workshops for the week are:

Taking Essay Exams

Tue Apr 3

4-5pm

Mona Campbell building

Rm. 1108

Taking Multiple Choice Exams

Wed Apr 4

6:30-7:30pm

Mona Campbell building

Rm. 2107

All this information can also be found on our website: www.dal.ca/sfs

Students can very easily sign up for workshops online or by:

- visiting our main office in Killam, Room G28 (Main floor)

- calling 494-3077 or

- emailing the Coordinator at: sfs@dal.ca

From: Human Resources
Subject: Changes to Minimum Wage (April 1, 2012)

Effective April 1, 2012, the hourly minimum wage for Nova Scotia changed as follows:

Experienced Employee:

· Previous Rate: $10.00

· New Rate: $10.15

Inexperienced Employee:

· Previous Rate: $9.50

· New Rate: $9.65

The Minimum Wage Order of Nova Scotia can be found on the Human Resources website:

http://www.dal.ca/dept/hr/employee-resources/payroll-and-information-services.html

Any rates of pay on the Banner system, which are less than the new rates, were automatically adjusted on April 1.

Please ensure that any new employee receives at least the minimum wage and also ensure that the appropriate rates are shown on any time sheets submitted to Payroll and Information Services.

Thank you for your attention to this. If you have any additional questions, please email hr@dal.ca.

From: Dalhousie Writing Centre
Subject: Creating a cultural shift: Engineers as writers

Creating a cultural shift: Engineers as writers

Sponsored by: The Writing Centre and the Centre for Learning and Teaching's Certificate Program

Speaker: Sarah Jane Payne, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering

Time: April 5th – 10:00-11:30

Location: Room 2616 of the Killam Library

Writing is a fundamental activity in the engineering profession; however, engineering students often do not see the value in writing activities. Writing is viewed as peripheral to their engineering education.

This presentation will focus on identifying the underlying causes of dismissive attitudes among engineers towards writing and will review several successful intervention strategies implemented at other engineering schools that have helped foster a culture of writing amongst engineering students. This session will also cover several writing activities that have been developed for the Dalhousie Writing Centre. These writing activities can be integrated into engineering writing projects and can help address some of the fundamental grammatical and structural issues that plague novice writers.

Sarah Jane Payne is a PhD candidate in Civil and Resource engineering at Dalhousie University. Since 2006 she has worked at the Dalhousie Writing Centre as a writing tutor. In this capacity she has helped both undergraduate and graduate students, mostly engineers, to improve the written component of projects such as lab reports, co-op reports, literature reviews, journal articles and graduate theses. She has also presented to both undergraduate and graduate student classes on various writing topics such as paragraph construction, grammar, formatting engineering reports, and preparing journal articles.

This presentation has been prepared as part of Sarah Jane’s independent study project for the Certificate in University Teaching and Learning from the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Dalhousie University.

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