- Peer Tutoring Project in Expository Writing

Catalog description

A course that interrogates questions of identity, power, and justice as students learn to tutor in the Skidmore College Writing Center. Students learn the foundation–and interrogate the justice–of rhetoric, grammar, and composition theory in academic writing, collaborative learning, and peer tutoring. Students analyze assignments and critique sample student essays. Weekly writing assignments and a term project explore and evaluate composition theory and establish best tutoring practices. Students participate in a weekly supervised peer tutoring practicum with Writing Center tutees. Fulfills Bridge Experience and Humanistic Inquiry requirements.This is an honors course.