Who are Writing Fellows?
Writing
Fellows are students who are either currently training or have already
trained to work as Writing Center consultants. Recognized as strong
writers, Writing Fellows are recommended to the Writing Center Director
by faculty members. All Writing Fellows have completed English 3256:
Peer Writing Consultation.
Who should consider working with a Writing Fellow?
You may want
to consider a Writing Fellow if you:
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Assign writing
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Want to provide your students
with an opportunity to learn from their peers
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Enjoy collaborating with other
faculty and students
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Wish to help students improve
their writing over time
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Favor
analytical/argumentative/content-based writing development over
grammatical/mechanical/technical skills acquisition
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Facilitate
effective peer group work
What can Writing Fellows do for my students?
Specially trained Writing Fellows
can:
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Model successful collaboration
strategies
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Model successful writing
strategies (such as glossing, clustering, mapping, etc)
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Hold follow-up consultations
with your students in the Writing Center
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Become “writing resources” for
your students
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Conduct mini-lessons on
writing (such as citation issues, avoiding plagiarism, thesis
development, etc)
How can I
request a Writing Fellow for my class?
- Contact Dr. Noreen Lape, Director of the
Writing Center
- Writing Fellows are assigned on a first come,
first served basis
- Writing Fellows’ availability is subject to
their class schedules
- When requesting a Writing Fellow, please
include the following information:
- Your name
- Class (course name and number)
- Time of class
- Place (location of class)
- Number of Writing Fellows requested (exact
number assigned will be based on availability)
- Dr. Lape will contact you
to confirm availability.
For more information, contact. . .
Dr. Noreen Lape
Director of the CSU Writing Center
Woodall Hall 113
706-565-4135
lape_noreen@colstate.edu
Faculty Responses to Writing Fellows
“The Writing Fellows created group
environments where students were actually ENGAGED and TALKING about
writing. During the class’s final peer review day, I apprehensively
asked the Fellows not to attend for fear that silence or the dreaded
‘It’s good’ would ring out. Instead, the group members were able to
look at their own and each other’s papers critically and ask the
questions the Fellows normally would. Having had these well-trained,
articulate, and intelligent Writing Fellows in each of my 1102 sections,
I would undoubtedly invite them in again (even tailor my syllabus to
have them in again) during peer review days for future classes.” –Gretchen
Nevins (ENGL 1102)
Student Response to Writing Fellows
“I loved the
guided discussion. They led us to find the weak spots in our own papers,
without blatantly calling out our errors.”
“Instead of
getting papers back with written advice I’d never take, I got to discuss
[my] ideas. It was dorky and fulfilling. I loved it.”
“[Writing
Fellows] give me an opportunity to get ‘professional’ help during
class.”
“She provided
great feedback on our papers and gave us reminders to consider when
writing papers.”
“Citing APA—she
was very knowledgeable about this and helped to clear it up.”
“I liked that
when we read our papers out loud we were able to realize our own
mistakes and things that we need to make better.”
“[The Writing
Fellow] helped focus my thoughts onto what was being asked in the
assignment.”
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