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CWU - West side Writing Centers

Locations:

  • Des Moines
  • Everett
  • Green Wood
  • Lynnwood
  • Pierce County

Staff:

  • Praire Brown, Asistant Director
  • Annie Scanlon, Des Moines Consultant
  • Heather Mack, Lynnwood and Everett Consultant

Contact Info:


Prairie Brown

Prairie Brown, Assistant Director

Telephone Consultations:

  • Email the writing consultant to request an appointment (BrownP@cwu.edu).
  • Suggest at least two possible times you would be available for a phone consultation.
  • When the consultant replies to tell you when your appointment will be, you should email her the following items:
    A draft of your paper (as a Word attachment)
    A description of your assignment (either as an attachment or in the text of your email)
    Your instructors name and the number and title of the course you're taking (in the text of your email)
    Your phone number (in the text of your email)
  • When the consultant calls, you should have a printed draft of your paper in front of you. You should have a pen in your hand, and you should be ready to take notes as you and your consultant read your paper together.
  • If this is your first consultation, you must be prepared to tell the consultant your student ID number.

It was a dark and stormy night...

Wait. That's a different story, not mine. I suppose if I were going to write my life history down for you, I'd most likely begin something like this: It was a sunny afternoon in November, a rare sort of day in autumn in Seattle, the day Prairie Brown was born.

Then I'd skip a bunch of uninteresting stuff about learning to walk and talk and pick up the story again after I'd become a full-fledged member of society. This societal membership, at least, the membership into the society that interests me, the society of readers and writers, began when I was four years old and noticed that I could read along with my mother as she chanted the words to Fox in Socks. Since that point, hardly a day has passed that reading wasn't a vital part of my life. Of course, the books have changed a bit over the years, from Dr. Seuss to Roald Dahl to L.M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott, gradually becoming the novels of the Bronte Sisters and Jane Austin, with some Shakespeare thrown in there for good measure. Lately, I've been finding my reading tastes running a bit toward the weird and macabre. My graduate thesis, written in 2003 at Central Washington University, focuses on the writings of Shirley Jackson, most commonly known for her short story The Lottery, a classic example of American gothic writing. Since graduate school, one of my favorite reading-related activities has been building my Stephen King collection. He's a writer whom I scorned as an undergraduate English major, but for whom I gained admiration when his name came up in my thesis research and I learned that he'd dedicated one of his novels to Shirley Jackson.

My professional life for the past seven years has involved teaching reading and writing, starting at CWU and moving to North Seattle Community College and now back again to CWU. I won't bore you with the rather unremarkable details of the rest of my life. If you want to know more, stop by the University Writing Center and ask me in person. We can have a cup of tea and talk.

Contact Information

Writing Center
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926
963-1296
email: kramert@cwu.edu
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