Writing Tutor Training Seminar

Catalog description

This course will examine techniques and theories of teaching writing outside the classroom. This course trains students to tutor writing in the University Writing Center and other tutoring spaces across campus and the community where they work with diverse writers. Specific topics include collaborative learning, approaches to consultations, cross-cultural rhetoric and communication, consulting strategies for a variety of students, the use of computers and AI-assisted processes in the writing center, composition, learning theories behind writing center work, and resource development.