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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m pleased to announce the following job opening for Fall 2018. Deadline is August 1, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>The Writing and Communication Center</b> (WCC) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) is seeking a one-semester lecturer to replace a lecturer who is on leave. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Founded in 1982, the WCC is a teaching institution, not an editing or proofreading service. It is staffed fully by professionals who work one-on-one with anyone associated with MIT, including undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, staff, faculty members, spouses, and alums. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> WCC lecturers help clients with any writing or speaking/oral presentation issue, including such issues as understanding the rhetorical situation, identifying and analyzing specific audiences, tailoring documents and speeches to those specific audiences, understanding genre conventions and expectations, creating effective organization, using persuasive argument strategies, critical thinking about messages, creating a more convincing and effective style, practicing speeches (for classroom assignments, for job talks, for conference presentations), slide design, proposals, articles for publication, application essays, CVs and resumes. Lecturers also explain grammar rules and conventions when needed (particularly for second language learners). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Orientation session arranged sometime in August with the director, Steven Strang. Teaching starts September 4, 2018 - January 31, 2019. The position has part-time or full-time possibilities. Flexible schedule, Monday-Friday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=HTMLBody style='line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities</span></b>: <span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Master’s degree required, Ph.D. preferred, in Scientific and Technical Writing, Rhetoric, Teaching English as a Second Language, Composition, or equivalent experience in the teaching of academic writing.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> Three years of college classroom teaching experience and/or of college writing center experience required. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>An Equal Opportunity Employer. Apply at </span><a href="http://careers.mit.edu/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>http://careers.mit.edu/</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> …scroll to bottom right and “Search for Openings” (go to MIT homepage </span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>http://web.mit.edu/</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> scroll to bottom and click on “Jobs”)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#3333FF'>Steven Strang, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director, the Writing and Communication Center<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Office</b>: E18-233B<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Phone</b>: 617-253-4459<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><a href="http://cmsw.mit.edu/writing-and-communication-center/">http://cmsw.mit.edu/writing-and-communication-center/</a><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>online scheduler: <b><a href="https://mit.mywconline.com/">mit.mywconline.com</a></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=82 height=125 style='width:.8583in;height:1.3in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D4176B.A7B4F1E0" alt="final logo 4"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Mailing Address</b>: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Writing and Communication Center<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>E18-233<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>77 Massachusetts Avenue<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>