Below is the general schedule for the conference. Here is the complete program, including session information, maps, acknowledgments, and other conference information.
You are welcome to print a copy of the conference pdf program, but we hope you will try out the conference program that is now available in a handy app “Eventpedia Go!” format, described to conference attendees in emails from ncptw2016@pugetsound.edu.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
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Time |
Activity |
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4 p.m. - 10 p.m. |
Check-in at Hotel Murano NCPTW conference info center (3rd floor foyer) |
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6 p.m. - 10 p.m. |
Hospitality and social room open (board games, etc.) Excursions to sites in Tacoma or Seattle |
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7 p.m. |
Wine tasting for directors, led by Puget Sound Professor Pierre Ly, faculty writing consultant and scholar of the international political economy of wine |
Friday, November 4, 2016
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Time |
Activity |
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7:30 a.m.-9 a.m. |
Continental breakfast (Bicentennial Pavilion) |
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7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. |
Check-in at Hotel Murano NCPTW conference info center (3rd floor foyer) |
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8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
First shuttle leaves for University of Puget Sound (from S. 13th Street) |
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8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Check-in at the Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching (Howarth 109) NCPTW conference info center |
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8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. |
Pre-conference session in Rausch Auditorium (McIntyre 003) on Sound Writing, a comprehensive online writing handbook written by three Puget Sound peer tutors, featuring student-friendly advice on writing with awareness in English, a complex, evolving, globally significant language |
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8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. |
Pre-conference tour of the Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching (Howarth 109) |
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8:50 a.m.- 9:15 a.m. |
Second shuttle leaves for University of Puget Sound (from S. 13th Street) |
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9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Shuttles run back and forth between Puget Sound and the Murano as needed. (Board shuttle at Puget Sound outside Wheelock, and board shuttle at Murano at S. 13th Street). |
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9:30 a.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Concurrent sessions (at the University of Puget Sound)
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4:55 p.m. |
First return shuttle leaves Puget Sound for the Hotel Murano (board outside Wheelock). Additional shuttles will be leaving from Puget Sound until 6:00. |
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5 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
Check-in at Hotel Murano NCPTW conference info center (3rd floor foyer) |
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7 p.m. - 9 p.m. |
Welcome dessert reception at the Museum of Glass (meet in hotel lobby 6:45-7:15 if you'd like to walk over with a group) |
Saturday, November 5, 2016
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Time |
Activity |
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8 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Check-in at Hotel Murano NCPTW conference info center (3rd floor foyer) |
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9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Plenary breakfast (Bicentennial Pavilion) Awards ceremony Keynote presentation by Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum |
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11 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. |
Concurrent sessions
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2 p.m. - 5 p.m. |
Afternoon coffee service (Ballroom Foyer outside Venice rooms and Bicentennial Pavilion) |
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5 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
SIG (Special Interest Group) session |
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6 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
Steering committee meeting (Venice 4) |
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7 p.m. - 10 p.m. |
Directors' dinners at multiple restaurants (Meet in Murano Lobby) |
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8 p.m. - 10 p.m. |
Peer tutor trivia night, with Trivia Master Emma Wilson ('15 Peer Tutor, University of Puget Sound) in Bicentennial Pavilion |
Sunday, November 6, 2016
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Time |
Activity |
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midnight |
Daylight Saving Time ends--time to fall back an hour, for a bonus hour of NCPTW! |
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8 a.m. - 9 a.m. |
Check-in at Hotel Murano NCPTW conference info center (3rd floor foyer) |
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8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
Pastries, coffee, and tea (3rd floor foyer and Bicentennial Pavilion) |
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9 a.m. - 1:05 p.m. |
Concurrent sessions
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