***This calendar is subject to change, including readings, activities, and due dates, but due dates will never be earlier than listed here***
This calendar was created in collaboration with Emily Hall and Rachel Herzl-Betz.
Week 1: Introductions and College Writing
R 9/7
Brief introductions to the course and to the Writing Fellows Program
Reading: The Writing Fellows Handbook
(Journals assigned)
(Literacy Autobiography assigned)
Week 2: Why and How Tutoring? Commenting Techniques
T 9/12
Reading: Cronon “Only Connect…
”Sommers and Saltz, “The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year”
Martinez, “Alejandra Writes a Book: A Critical Race Counterstory about Writing, Identity, and Being Chicanx in the Academy”
R 9/14
Reading: Sommers, “Responding to Student Writing” (“Introduction,” Setting the Scene for Responding,” “Engaging Students in a Dialogue about Their Writing,” “Writing Marginal Comments,” and “Writing End Comments”
(Research Paper Assigned)
Activity: Begin Commenting Exercise
Week 3: Commenting Techniques cont’d and Intro to Conferencing Techniques
T 9/19
Reading:
Bean, “Writing Comments on Students’ Papers”
Daiker, “Learning to Praise”
Activity: Finish Commenting Exercise
Writing Due: Draft One of Literacy Autobiography due to Learn@UW dropbox AND to workshop group members
R 9/21
Reading: Newkirk: “The First Five Minutes”
Trimbur, “Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms”
Sarah Groeneveld “It Begins With a Mentality: Disability and The Writing Center”
Writing Due: Written peer review comments (emailed)
Activity: Workshop Groups
Week 4: Conferencing Techniques cont’d. and Intro to Writing and Access
T 9/26
Reading: Hitt, “Access for All: The Role of Disability in Multiliteracy Centers”
Harris, “Conference Activities”
Activity: Watch & Discuss Videos of Fellows Tutoring
R 9/28
A quick visit from UW’s Odyssey Project
Reading: Bruffee, “Peer Tutoring and the ‘Conversation of Mankind”
Writing Due: Final Draft of Literacy Autobiography (Learn@UW)
Week 5: Researching Writing
Guest speakers this week—experienced Fellows talk about research
T 10/3
Reading: Swanson, “Mismatch: First Generation College Students and Writing Center Tutoring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”
Booth, Craft of Research, “Asking Questions Finding Answers: Prologue: Planning Your Project”
Writing Due: Short Research Proposals (Learn@UW)
R 10/5
Reading: O’Leary, “It’s Now What You Say, But How You Say It (And to Whom): Accommodating Gender in the Writing Conference”
Ianetta and Fitzgerald, “Looking Through Lenses: Theoretically Based Inquiry” and “Show Me: Empirical Evidence and Tutor Research”
Writing Due: Reflective Writing #1 (Learn@UW
(Guidelines for longer research proposals handed out)
Week 6: Language Backgrounds and Local Concerns in Writing
T 10/10
Reading: Micciche, “Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar”
R 10/12
Reading: Matsuda and Cox, “Reading an ESL Writer’s Text”
Staben and Nordhaus, “Looking at the Whole Text”
Week 7: Race and/in the Writing Center
T 10/17
Reading: Ashanti Young, “Casualties of Literacy”
hooks, “Teaching New Worlds/New Words”
Writing Due: Research Proposals Revised & Expanded (Learn@UW)
R 10/19
Reading:
Burrows, “Writing While Black: The Black Tax on African-American Graduate Writers”
Suhr-Sytsma and Brown, “Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center”
Week 8: Writing Across the Curriculum
T 10/24
Reading:
Dinitz and Harrington, “The Role of Disciplinary Expertise in Shaping Writing Tutorials”
Hubbuch, “A Tutor Needs to Know . . . ”
Activity: (in-class debate)
R 10/26
Reading: Severino and Trachsel. “Starting a Writing Fellows program: Crossing disciplines or crossing pedagogies?”
Activity: Analyze writing assignments
Week 9: Access and Writing Revisited
T 10/31
Reading: Simpkins, “Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Students in the Writing Center”
Denny, “Queering the Writing Center”
R 11/2
Reading: Freire, “Preface” and “Chapter 2”
Writing Due: Reflective Writing #2 (Learn@UW
Week 10: Multimodal Writing
T 11/7
Reading: McKinney “New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print”
Listen to Duane Roen “How Technology Has Changed The Way We Write”
R 11/9
Reading Due: Jenna Mertz, “Walking the Line: Navigating Student ‘Voice’ in the World of Undergraduate Peer Tutoring”
(Final Research Presentation Assigned)
Week 11: Refining the Research Paper
T 11/14
CLASS CANCELLED—Draft reading time and visit Writing Center
Writing Due: Draft of Research Paper—due to workshop group
R 11/16
In-Class Workshop
Writing Due: Written comments for workshop (emailed)
Week 12: Refining the Research Paper
T 11/21
In-Class Workshops—continued
Writing Due: Revised Literacy Autobiographies
R 11/23
No Class—Happy Thanksgiving
Week 13: Student Presentations
T 11/28
In Class Presentations on Research Papers
R 11/30
In Class Presentations on Research Papers
Week 14: Student Presentations
T 12/5
In Class Presentations on Research Papers
R 12/7
In Class Presentations on Research Papers
Writing Due: Final Reflective Writing #3 (Learn@UW
Week 15: Student Presentations and Wrap-up
T 12/12
Last Class – Conclusions
Writing Due: Final Research Portfolio (Learn@UW)
Annika Konrad 