Teaching in a Writing Center Spring 2020

                                                                    Options for Blog Post #2   How might tutoring non-native speakers differ from tutoring native speakers?  How might tutoring graduate students differ from tutoring undergrads (see handout)?  How does the writing process chapter apply to your own work as a writer and a writing teacher?   What are your most and least favorite phases of the writing process and why? What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of your own writing process? Of your classroom and (what you know so far about) your writing center students’ writing processes?

Blog Post #1:  Please post two questions or concerns, one about how our writing center operates and the other about how writing centers in general function?  Thanks!  You can post them as comments.

Hi Writing Center Class: Looking forward to working with you and getting to know you! About me: I earned my Master's in Linguistics-TESOL and my doctorate in English: Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric at the U of Illinois at Chicago.  I've been a Rhetoric prof and WC Director for  29 years! My academic writing is about second language issues, including those related to the writing center (WC); our current WC project is about Iowa's international students' perceptions of their second language writing development; I'll be sharing some of it with you in class. I also like to write creatively and personally about travel and language-learning ,and I teach travel writing as a first-year seminar every fall. In my free time, I hang out with my granddaughters, 9 and 2.  I'm also in the process of rehabbing my new knee! Carol