WC Meeting 3

We had a short, disrupted and distracted meeting last Wednesday! I forgot to remember to send a reminder, and it was also a hard week for many people as it is semester break. Nevertheless, it's nice to see our core group of regular members.

Here's a brief summary of our reported progress and commitments for next time:

• Aj. Aphichat wants to share experiences with publishing. And Aj. Pramote came to see what happens at Writing Club. They both left early, but we hope they'll come back next time.
• Aj. Manasigan talked about how she used journal writing to work out some issues that she has. She will try to do a blog entry on this. 
• Aj. Kerry is making some progress with her long overdue paper with Aj. Aphichat. They targeted a journal and Kerry ran some multinomial logistic regression models. Without the Writing Club, there would be no progress at all; because I have to report to the group, I make sure to make a bit of progress!
• Jongjit wrote an excellent abstract for a GIS conference. We used this as an example to do some editing. She'll continue working on this for next time.
• Suchitra wasn't able to give us a report on the Becker book this time, but she will do it next time.
• Cartoon shared that she thinks the blog is difficult for the Thai students to use because they feel self-conscious about their writing. I am trying to think of ways to overcome this, because I think the blog can be a useful tool. Nevertheless, I'm happy to edit abstracts or other short writing examples via email if you feel more comfortable.

We will skip one meeting and meet again on June 13th. I will remember to remind next time.