Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:30 PM-6:30 PM.

CTLR Library 225
* Tell us the writing expectations and guidelines of your major.
* Get comfortable giving oral presentations.

Who comes to this session?

• All new PWTS
• Trained Mentors now training and/or working as PWTs.  (If you are not sure if you are in this category, e-mail me.)
• Trained PWTS may come to session 4, 5, or 6, or attend the Research workshop with Carrie Macfarlane.  However, if you are planning to attend the Research Workshop, you must definitely commit to attending, and you must have already sent your RSVP to Chelsea Edgar. If you have not done this, place to attend session 5 or 6.

Make-up sessions are only for those who have received prior approval.  E-mail Melanie Haas  for permission.

• “Working with Multilingual (ESL) Students” ~ Dr. Shawna Shapiro
• People Who Can Help
• Complete Future Plans Form

• All new PWTs
• Trained PWTs who did not come to Session 4, must come this Thursday,  or to Session 6 next week.
• Trained FYSMs who did not come to Session 4, must come this Thursday, or to Session 6 next week.

  Thursday October 11 CTLR 4:30-6:30 6– INTL /Getting Help/Grammar

  Thursday October 18 CTLR 4:30-6:30

Due to some scheduling conflicts,  Session 5  for Mentors and Peer Writing Tutors will now cover Grammar issues as well as the previously scheduled Problems Students Face training.

Session 6 will now cover Working with International Students  as well as the previously scheduled Getting Help.

This change has no impact on new tutors who must attend both sessions, but I want to call it to the attention of those previously trained Peer Writing Tutors and Mentors who can choose between attending sessions 3, 4, or 5.

Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research, Middlebury College

Writing and Academic Mentor Session #2 Getting Started

• All new Writing and Academic Mentors must attend.
• All trained Peer Writing Tutors now working as Writing and Academic Mentors must attend.
• Trained Writing and Academic Mentors must attend either this session or Session 3 on Thursday, September 26th.

Become expert at Time Management!

Mentors: Bring a syllabus from all four of your classes.

You will practice a 15 minute-version of the 30 min. tutor session

Always bring your training folder to all training sessions.

Peer Writing Tutor Session #2 Getting Started

• All new Peer Writing Tutors must attend this session.

  Trained Peer Writing Tutors must attend either this session or Session 3 on Wednesday, September 26th.

  Trained Mentors who have never been trained as Peer Writing Tutors must attend this session.

Brainstorming answers to frequently asked tutor questions

15 minute-version of the 30 min. tutor session

Always bring your training folder to all training sessions.

Make-up sessions are only for those who have received prior approval.

Although we do not copy edit papers, we do not ignore grammatical, mechanical, and style problems in students’ papers. Instead, we draw a student’s attention to the error: POINT, ask if the student can recognize and IDENTIFY the error, and finally, ask if the student can CORRECT the error.

When you see a problem, ask if the student can identify the problem. If yes, ask the student to explain the problem, and then ask if the student can correct the problem. If the student cannot identify the problem, you should do that. If the student cannot correct the problem, you should help the student correct the problem.

Repeat this process three times. Each time, encourage the student to point out, identify, and then correct the error or problem.  After that, encourage the student to complete corrections of the error during the revision process.    If a student still has difficulty identifying and correcting the error, refer the student to one of the faculty writing tutors.

Remember the 3x PIC rule: Point—Identify—Correct—x3

*Melanie is featured in the  Middlebury story about this summer’s Middcore.

Fall 2012 Training Dates for  Writing and Academic Mentors for First-Year Seminars
Org Session          Wednesday, September 12, CTLR, 4:30-6:30
Session 2              Thursday, September 20, CTLR, 4:30-6:30  Bring all syllabi.
Session 3              Wednesday, September 26, CTLR, 4:30-6:30 Bring a paper.
Session 4              Wednesday, October 3, CTLR
Session 5              Thursday, October 11, CTLR, 4:30-6:30
Session 6              Thursday, October 18, CTLR, 4:30-6:30
Session 7              Thursday,November 8, CTLR 4:30-7:00

• People Who Can Help
• Grammar Review
• Future-Plans-of-PWT-and-FYSMs12Spring

Who needs to come?

• All new PWTs
• Trained PWTs who did not come to Session 4 or Session 5 must come this Thursday.
• Trained FYSMs who did not come to Session 4 or Session 5 must come this Thursday.

Make-up sessions are only for those who have received prior approval. Bring your folder to every session.

E-mail Izzy Nuttall (enuttall@middlebury.edu) for prior approval.

Bookmark these sites:
PWT & FYSM Blog
Peer Writing Tutor Site
FYSM Site
Writing College Papers
PWT/FYSM Facebook Group

Middlebury College Writing Support for Students

See you Thursday!

Mary Ellen Bertolini
Associate Director, Writing