Teaching in a Writing Center Spring 2020

For this case study I will write about one of the students that made a habit of coming to the writing center. We'll call her Casey. This student was majoring in Spanish, if I remember correctly, but had at the same time important difficulties in understanding and writing in the language. This should point to a sort of inner discrepancy in the student's experience of her academic life, but I was, of course, in no position to recommend more careful consideration on this matter. It seems evident that she should focus on a different major. Casey came a total of 4 or 5 times for help with either reading a text that she had been assigned, or with the writing of an assignment related to a text. Both of these were somewhat challenging, because the student seemed to be uninvested in the work, and to want it done for her. She brought in the letters of Cortés, a key text in colonial literature, with which I was not fully acquainted at the time. Furthermore, she didn't have any speci

Hi everyone! Here is my case study: From English to Spanish Since I don’t have students that I work with throughout the semester, I have decided to write about one student that I worked a few times in the semester. Let’s call her Lily. I am actually familiar with Lily because I was her TA during my first year teaching at the University of Iowa. Back then, I taught an intermediate level course. When I was her TA, I remember that she was a good student who would participate often in class and does her online assignments regularly. Sure, her Spanish was not perfect, but it was above average; I also remember that she wants to minor in Spanish. When she made an appointment at the center, I discovered she is in the writing class (2000 level) that I am teaching now, but with another TA. So, I was familiar with the class material and the assignments that she had to do. When Lily came to see me, she wanted to work on her draft for a chapter essay that was about 600 words. Wh

Hi Class: Here are Ashlyn's Case Studies Ashlyn Kershner RHET 5375 May 2020 Case Study: Two Similar Students             For this case study, I’d actually like to discuss both of the students I have been working with each week. The reasons for this are that both students bring similar problems and strengths to the table, both are in the same program (albeit doing rather different research), both are working on projects of a similar scale and for similar purposes, and both have had very similar issues come up with regards to their processes. Both, also, are international students bringing some of the writing struggles we’ve talked about at length to the table: confusions about tense, number, pronouns, and occasionally general word choice. However, both are PhD students who have had many years of figuring out such translation issues, such that they often catch them even before I do. Since both of these students are working on similar (in terms of scale and general p