WRITING CENTER THEORY AND PRACTICE ECE

In this course, students prepare to serve as Writing Center Peer Tutors by studying how to strengthen academic writing of all kinds. Students will explore theories and strategies of teaching and tutoring writing across academic disciplines. We will start by examining what we know about how human beings best learn, how we have learned to write, and how we ourselves continue to reflect on and improve our own writing. Then we will discuss interaction dynamics—the foundation of working with other writers in the classroom and in one-on-one and small-group peer tutoring relationships. We will explore how components of identity shape our own writing and our interactions with other writers, learn how to identify writers’ strengths, build trust, and foster engaged learning through the writing process.  Upon successful completion of this course, students may receive 1 college credit for UConn’s fall ENGL 3082 course.