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Nov 26, 2024
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ENG 608B - Tutoring Student Writers (3 units)
Trains students to work with peers on academic writing projects; prepares students to work in the university’s Writing Center.
Units of Lecture: 2
Units of Internship/Practicum: 1
Offered: Every Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. connect theory and practice related to ethical writing and consultation processes.
2. conduct inquiry into students’ difficulties with writing and apply insight gained to create a focus for tutoring sessions.
3. learn and apply consultation methods appropriate for writers from different backgrounds, learning styles, and levels of writing proficiency.
4. understand and apply ethical principles of writing as well as supporting student writing.
5. collaborate effectively with other writers and consultants.
6. analyze, evaluate, and guide revision of different kinds of written texts with problems in a variety of areas, including audience and task orientation, focus on a specific purpose, development, global/local organization, integration of sources, logical connections, conventions of academic genre, documentation/citation, and sentence style/mechanics.
7. perform a variety of writing, consulting, research, and critical thinking tasks more effectively.
8. present graduate-caliber research at a level and in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.
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