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.

You can also access the course through the EOU Online Writing Lab (OWL) at http://www3.eou.edu/writelab/. On the OWL homepage, click on "Writing Tutor Corner" and then on "Writing 220 Online."

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 to Digital Drop Box unless you are instructed to submit to the Discussion Board. See Instructions for Submitting to Digital Drop Box.

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.

Week 1

Learning about Writing Center History
& Theories of Writing and Learning

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 1 "Writing Center History and Theory"

St. Martin's, Introduction to text, Part I, pp. 1-8, "The Tutoring Process"
St. Martin's, Lunsford, "Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of the Writing Center"

Assignments:

I will make your first work due Friday of the first week. In subsequent weeks, Study Guides will be due each Tuesday, and intitial Discussion Board posts should be submitted each Wedesday. Your responses to Discussion Board initial posts should be completed by each Friday morning of each week.

Generally, on Wednesdays or Thursdays I will check Study Guides, and on Fridays I will post a lecture on Discussion Board that emerges from that week's discussion. I will post new announcements each Sunday to begin the week.

Due by Fri..:Study Guide #1

Post by Fri.: Discussion Board #1

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.

For Response Groups, review the Writers's Autobiography Peer Response Rubric which I use for response and evaluation.  Also review the Writer's Autobiography Evaluation Rubric.

Important Reminder--Discussion Board Requirements:

Students are expected to post at least one longer submission each week to the Discussion Board, and at least two responses to others' submissions. These posts are in addition to the work that you will be required to post. 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
Reflecting on Our Own Writing History & Process

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 2 "Preparing for Tutoring: Remembering, Reflecting, and Anticipating"
Clark, Chap.4 pp. 85-91 "Encourage Student to Do Something Before They Attempt to Write"

Assignments:

Reminder: Each week your Study Guide is due Tuesday (by midnight). Your first Discussion Board post is due by Wednesday at noon. I go online Wednesdays and Fridays to respond to student work and Discussion Board. I go online Sundays to make announcements for the week to come.

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.

Tues. Study Guide #2 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #2

Wed. Reader-friendly draft due of Writer's Autobiography due for Peer Response Groups and a copy submitted to instructor. (This is the first term I will be attempting to use the Group feature on Blackboard, so bear with me. I will assign you to peer response groups.)

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.

Also, submit a draft to the Online Writing Lab (OWL) for tutor response.

In your submission, be sure to ask the tutor to complete a "Blue Slip" (what we call the Tutorial Report form). Read the "Blue Slip" Policy to become familiar with the rules regarding this tutorial report form.

 

Week 3

Preparing to Work with Students

Readings:
Clark ,Chap. 3 "Working with Students: Interpersonal Communication"
St. Martin's, Brooks, "Minimalist Tutoring"

St. Martin's, Sherwood, "Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves"

St. Martin's, Freed, "Subjectivity in the Tutorial Session: How Far Can We Go?"

Take VARK and Personality Inventories. Reflection due next week.

Assignments:

Tues.. Study Guide #3 due; Peer Response Reflection due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #3

 

Week 4

Helping Students to Get Started

Readings:
Clark, Chap. 4 pp. 65-83, "Interpreting Assignments, Developing Ideas"

St. Martin's, Shamoon and Burns, "A Critique of Pure Tutoring"

Assignments:

Mon. Revised Writer's Autobiography due with Being Tutored ( Online) Reflection due with Blue Slip (Tutorial Response Form) completed by OWL tutor (if your tutor sent you one). Copy and paste the Reflection and the Blue Slip to the end of your revised draft and submit.

Tues. Study Guide #4 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board # 4

 

Week 5

Helping Students to Focus Their Writing and Clarify Purpose and Audience

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 5 "Purpose, Thesis, and Audience"

St. Martin's, Fulwiler, "Provocative Revision"

Assignments:

Tues. Study Guide #5 due

Begin Essay #2: Tutoring Daniel's Paper on Euthanasia

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #5

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

Helping Students Revise

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 6 "Helping Students Revise: Global and Surface Level Revision"

Assignments:

Tues. Study Guide #6 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #6

Due by Fri. Essay #2

 

Week 7

Working with Computers in the Writing Lab: OWL Response Training & Practice

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 8 "Working with Computers in the Writing Center"
St. Martin's, Apperson-Williams, "The Anxieties of Distance: Online Tutors Reflect"
St. Martin's, Cooper, Bui, and Riker, "Protocols and Process in Online Tutoring"

Assignments:

Tues. Study Guide #7 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #7

 

Week 8

The Research Paper and Documentation

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 9 "Special Assignments: The Research Paper and the Literary Essay"

Online Writing Lab (OWL) http://www3.eou.edu/writelab/ WPE readings in "Resources for Writers" Section, Research and Documentation link

Assignments:

Tues. Study Guide #8 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #8

Begin Essay #3 Final Tutoring Reflection (See Essay #3 Models and Rubric)

 

Week 9

Working with ESL Writers /Multiculturalism in the Writing Center

Readings:

Clark, Chap. 10, "Working with Non-native and Dialect Speakers in the Writing Center"
St. Martin’s, Harris, "Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students"
St. Martins, Dipardo, "Whispers of Coming and Going" : Lessons from Fannie"

Also: review the ESL "Best Practices" Checklist and and the "Resources for Writers" ESL link.

Assignments:

Revision of Essay #2 (based on my feedback) due one week from the date I returned it to you in with my comments.

Tues.Study Guide #9 due

Post by Wed. Discussion Board #9

 

Week 10

Working with Students with Learning Disabilities

Readings:

Clark, 7 "Dealing with Learning Disabilities in the Writing Center"

St. Martin's, Neff, "Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center"

Online Writing Lab (OWL) http://www3.eou.edu/writelab/ WPE readings in "Resources for Writers" Section, Learning Disabilities link.

Assignments:

 

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