Final Reflective Essay

Audience: 

Me and  classmates, though I'd like you to consider submitting a piece for the "Tutor's Column" feature of WLN. Guidelines are here. 

One of our Consultants, Lillian Tzanev, published a piece for the journal. Publishing a piece is hard (many others have gotten rejection letters) but will greatly help you with grad-school assistantships or when you interview for jobs that involve communications/editing skills.

Topic:  

Sadly, a class of this nature cannot cover everything about peer assistance in detail. Think back to the list I had you make recently, for things you'd like covered in the last class meetings.

Identify an issue you want to know more about, as a newly trained Consultant: one also that you'd think worth the while of a bigger audience (existing Consultants who read WLN or those newly trained). Read over some old Tutor's Columns in the WLN archives to guide you. Look at well at The Peer Review's back issues.

Format:

• At least six scholarly and peer-reviewed sources required. Local materials, such as our videos or Writer's Web pages, do not count toward the six, nor do pages from the Purdue OWL, though I welcome your employing them. Glaser or Hjortshoj or Graff & Birkenstein each count as a single source.

• You are welcome to employ readings we did not cover. You should also look into research via the Library's databases, The Writing Center Journal archive (see search boxes on L of screen) and WLN online archive.  The signature journal for academic writing in the US (it covers more than writing centers), College Composition and Communication, has a searchable archive with articles, conference presentations, and committee reports.

• I have put all older 383 readings and many we have used on a separate, restricted-access site that may require login credentials.

• Submit by e-mail (PDF, Word or Google Doc), 1500 words or fewer. Come up with a clever title that captures your focus. No "Final Paper for Eng. 383" hokum.

• Put your name on the top of the essay, with your title. First-person is fine as you are reflecting as well as analyzing.

• Use MLA-format in-text citations and include a Works-Cited List. In text format is simple: basically it’s (author page) without commas or “p.” (Bartholomae 200) or a short version of the title too, if you use two pieces by the same writer (Bartholomae “Inventing” 201).  You may skip the author’s name if it appears in the signal phrase.

Ex.  As Bartholomae notes, “quotation” or paraphrase (200).

 I grade down for citation and grammatical errors--being careful is good practice for Writing Consultants.