Why should I use Writing Fellows in my courses?
The Writing Fellows Program trains selected undergraduates as writing consultants and makes them available to work with students taking courses in a wide variety of disciplines.
The Writing Fellows assigned to a given course comment on students' written work and hold individual conferences with students or student groups where they discuss these comments and revision strategies. By reinforcing writing skills across the curriculum, the Program helps students learn to adapt to different modes/genres, audiences, and rhetorical situations.
Additionally, faculty are likely to discover that (1) it allows them to emphasize high-quality writing in their courses without increasing their workload and (2) that they receive more readable, organizationally sound, and stylistically sophisticated papers, allowing them to devote their energy to evaluating their students’ comprehension of the subject matter.
The Writing Fellows assigned to a given course comment on students' written work and hold individual conferences with students or student groups where they discuss these comments and revision strategies. By reinforcing writing skills across the curriculum, the Program helps students learn to adapt to different modes/genres, audiences, and rhetorical situations.
Additionally, faculty are likely to discover that (1) it allows them to emphasize high-quality writing in their courses without increasing their workload and (2) that they receive more readable, organizationally sound, and stylistically sophisticated papers, allowing them to devote their energy to evaluating their students’ comprehension of the subject matter.
How do I use Writing Fellows in my course?
Writing Fellows are embedded within courses that have strong writing components. These assignments should be scaffolded in your syllabus so that writers in your course:
NOVEMBER 1 if you want WFs for SPRING semester.
- receive feedback from Fellows on drafts, either in-class or outside of class;
- attend a face-to-face meeting with Fellows, and
- revise their drafts before submission.
NOVEMBER 1 if you want WFs for SPRING semester.