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BEFORE YOU BEGIN: IMPORTANT!!! This is not a self-paced course. The assignments are sequenced and scaffolded, building one on the other. Work must be submitted on time each week. This includes Discussion Board Participation. IMPORTANT: This one document contains the entire course. Click on all blue highlighted pages on this course document for links to all of the assignments for this course. To repeat, the entire course, with all of the links that you need to all of the guides and assignments, is in this one document. Looking Ahead--Tutoring Experience: Look ahead to Week 8 when you begin Essay #3 (your final) in which you write about your tutoring experiences. You should begin now to consider how you might arrange for some face-to face tutoring sessions in local schools around Week 5 of the term. You can work with a student in K-12 whom you know and who is writing something for a class (relative, friend, neighbor) or you may arrange to work with a student at a local school or college. If you live close to a college with a Writing Lab, this would be the ideal situation. You will also practice online tutoring, but I will provide this experience. SCHEDULE OF READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS Note: Submit all assignments for the course on the Assignments page where you will find a link for submitting each assignment. Please review Discussion Board Instructions. Assignment #1: After enrolling in the course, and before the course begins, please post a Self-Introduction to the Discussion Board. Reminder: This is NOT a work-at-your-own pace course. This course is designed with sequenced assignments that build off of one another week by week. You must submit work on time and post to DB on time for the course to work. You cannot retroactively post to DB after Friday of each week. Any late work may be returned with no score or docked score.
Week 1 Writing and the Writing Center: History and Theory Readings: Clark, Chap. 1 "Writing and the Writing Center: History and Theory" St. Martin's, Introduction to text, Part I, pp. 1-8, "The Tutoring Process" Assignments: Your Study Guides and intitial Discussion Board post are due Thursday of each week every week but Week 1. This week your Study Guide and Discussion Board are due by Friday. Your Discussion Board Responses (1 long DB Post and 2 shorter responses to others) should be completed by Friday of each week. Due by Friday at noon: Study Guide #1: Writing and the Writing Center: History and Theory Post by Friday at noon: Discussion Board #1 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Begin Essay #1: Writer's Autobiography. Read the Writer's Autobiography Models to get an idea of what is possible. I provide several models, and provide a Instructor Commentary link at the top of each model in which I point out significant features of each model. Review the Writer's Autobiography Evaluation Rubric before you write. Important Reminder--Discussion Board Requirements: Students are expected to post at least one longer submission each week to the Discussion Board that is a reposne to that week's DB prompt; at least two responses to other students' posts; and one response/post to my weekly lecture. Please keep all discussion pertinent to the course material. This is meant to be an intellectual discussion of ideas rather than a chat room. You are welcome to contribute personal information insofar as it contributes to our understanding of the course material. Again review Discussion Board Instructions. Week 2 Introduction to Course Readings: Clark, Chap. 2 “Who Comes to the Writing Center? A Diverse Student Body” Assignments: Reminder: This is NOT a work-at-your-own pace course. This course is designed with sequenced assignments that build off of one another week by week. You must submit work on time and post to DB on time for the course to work. You cannot retroactively post to DB after Friday of each week. Any late work may be returned with no score or docked score. Due by Thursday at noon Study Guide #2 Who Comes to the Writing Center? Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #2 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Thursday: Reader-friendly draft due of Writer's Autobiography due for Peer Response Groups (click on this "Peer Response Groups" link for directions for an effective Peer Response) and a copy submitted to instructor. For Response Groups, review the Writers's Autobiography Peer Response Rubric which I use for response and evaluation. Peer Response Pairs: I will assign you to Peer Response pairs. To find your partner to exchange drafts, go to the Blackboard main menu, click on "Communication," and then on "Group Pages." Here you will find your partner. Use the Discussion Board within your group to exchange essays and to exchange responses. Be sure to read the Peer Response Groups document above. If I had to create a trio, send your essay to the person's name below yours on the list (or if you are the last on the list, to the first person on the list). Also, submit a draft to the Online Writing Lab (OWL) for tutor response. Note: Some of you may be assigned to a partner who never sends you a draft and who does not respond to yours. I have no way of telling who is, and is not, active in the course at the point at which I assign pairs.. So some of you will just not receive a peer response other than the OWL Tutor response. Also note: I do not respond to this early draft, but only record that you have partcipated in the process and to give you the credit. I wait to respond to the revised draft due Monday of Week 4 that has benefitted from peer response, tutor response, and is the product of multiple drafts and revision. Week 3 Preparing to Work with Students Readings: St. Martin's, Sherwood, "Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves" St. Martin's, Freed, "Subjectivity in the Tutorial Session: How Far Can We Go?" Assignments: Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #3 “Preparing for Tutoring”
Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #3 Complete VARK and Personality Inventory; " How I Learn (VARK) and Personality Inventory " Reflection Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Week 4 Interpreting Assignments: Developing Ideas Readings: St. Martin's, Shamoon and Burns, "A Critique of Pure Tutoring" Assignments: Due by Friday: Revised Writer's Autobiography due with Being Tutored ( Online) Reflection and Peer Response Reflection. Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #4 “Interpreting Assignments: Developing Ideas” Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board # 4 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Week 5 Working with Drafts: Purpose, Thesis, Audience, Genre Readings: Clark, Chap. 5 "Purpose, Thesis, Audience, Genre” St. Martin's, Fulwiler, "Provocative Revision" Assignments: Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #5 due Begin Essay #2: Tutoring Daniel's Paper on Euthanasia Post by Thursday at noon. Discussion Board #5 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday.
Note: Final Revised Essay #1 Writer's Autobiography due a week from the date I returned it to you with my feedback for revision.
Week 6 Revising Texts: Global and Surface Level Revision Readings: Clark, Chap. 6 “Revising Texts: Global and Surface Level Revision” Assignments: Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #6 “Revising Texts: Global and Surface Level Revision”
Due by Fri. Essay #2 Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #6 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Week 7 Issues for Non-Native and Dialect Speakers Readings: Clark, Chap. 7 “Issues for Non-Native and Dialect Speakers” St. Martin’s, Harris, "Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students" St. Martin’s, Myers, “Reassessing the ‘Proofreading Trap’: ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction”
ESL "Best Practices" Checklist (click here) on the "Resources for Writers" ESL link.
Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #7 “Issues for Non-Native and Dialect Speakers” Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #7 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday.
Week 8 Writing in the Disciplines Readings: Clark, Chapter 8, "Writing in the Disciplines" Assignments: Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #8 “Writing in the Disciplines” Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #8 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. Begin Essay #3 Final Tutoring Reflection (See Essay #3 Models and Rubric)
Week 9 Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center Readings: Clark, Chap. 10, "Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center” St. Martin’s, Neff, “Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center” Assignments: Revision of Essay #2 (based on my feedback) due one week from the date I returned it to you in with my comments. Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #9 “Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center” Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #9 Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday.
Week 10 Tutoring in Cyberspace
Clark, Chap. 10 “Tutoring in Cyberspace” St. Martin's, Cooper, Bui, and Riker, "Protocols and Process in Online Tutoring" Assignments: Due by Thursday at noon: Study Guide #10 “Tutoring in Cyberspace” Post by Thursday at noon: Discussion Board #10 (Post your OWL Response Practice to the "Reality TV" essay. Give each other feedback (remembering to begin with praise!) Discussion Board Responses: Post by Friday. By Fri. Essay #3 due and Final Thoughts due
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