Halloween in the Comm Lab

Comm Lab Works Study Marva Ward assists students
with signing in during the lab's Halloween festivities.

There were more than spooks and spectors in the lab today when lab assistant Nick Webb pulled out the Wheel of Grammar to challenge students' knowledge of writing concepts.

Topics covered by the wheel's quiz questions included commas, fragments, documentation and even Comm Lab trivia.

According to lab assistant Tonja Nelson, the Wheel of Grammar benefits students because it exposes them to the topics and, whether they get the question right or wrong, they hear the correct answer and why that answer is correct.

The Comm Lab personnel set up the wheel around 9 AM and allowed students to spin for a prize until 2 PM.  

Tutor James Williams performs
his mime routine for his
Comm Lab fellows.

Tutors also prepped for Recognizing Rhetoric, planned for 11 AM and 1 PM, Monday, November 2nd.  Lab assistant Brandon Isaak and tutor Spencer Stephens packed 50 workshops packets consisting of information about rhetorical appeals and promotional information about ECHO 2.0 and the Comm Lab Facebook.

Some tutors even celebrated Halloween by dressing up in costume and harassing the other employees.  One such employee enjoyed following lab staff around mimicking them.

Others expressed disappointment that not enough people dressed up for the holiday.  Nelson said, "It's a good thing I didn't dress up because no one else did."