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Joint Staff Meeting 2012: Bringing It All Together
On Friday, February 17 the Writing Fellows Program hosted our annual Joint Staff Meeting with the Writing Center. Seven Writing Fellows gave presentations based on research they conducted for their English/Interdisciplinary Courses 316 class. Writing Center instructors served as moderators for each presentation and posed questions designed to help audience members delve more [...]
Feeling Welcome in Florida: Writing Fellows Attend the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing
By Rebecca Furdek. I was privileged to attend the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) at Florida International University in Miami earlier this month with my co-Writing Fellows, Alexis Brown and Patrick B. Johnson. As the title of the Conference, “Tutors, Tutoring, and the Teaching of Tutors” suggests, the over [...]
Joint Staff Meeting–Another Big Success!
The undergraduate Writing Fellows and the staff of the Writing Center came together last Friday to build community and share scholarship at our annual Joint Staff Meeting. The meeting was conference-style, featuring panels of Writing Fellows’ original research on various topics related to tutoring and teaching writing. It was an inspiring experience, and renewed our [...]
“Grammar and its (Dis)Contents”
On February 12, the Writing Fellows Program hosted its annual Joint Writing Center/Writing Fellows Staff Meeting. The meeting focused on grammar and how Writing Center instructors and Writing Fellows can and should address students’ concerns about grammar in their sessions. This year, our staff of 50 undergraduate Writing Fellows, close to 50 graduate WC instructors, [...]
