Teaching and Tutoring Writing

Catalog description

This course explores writing tutoring practice, theory, and research. Drawing upon the history of composition instruction and the scholarship surrounding writing center pedagogy, students will learn, apply, and investigate valued practices of writing tutoring. After developing a foundational understanding of writing center teaching in the first half of the semester, students will apply this knowledge by working as paid writing center tutors and by undertaking original research projects that examine compelling aspects of writing center tutoring or composition instruction. Students who complete this course are eligible to continue as paid writing center tutors in future semesters.