Fall 2011 Training Dates for Peer Writing Tutors Org Session-Thurs. 9/15 Session 2-Wed 9/21 Session 3-Thurs 9/29 Session 4-Thurs. 10/6 Session 5-Thurs 10/13 Session 6-Thurs 10/20 Please bring your folder to every training session. You will be paid for training on completion of all of your mandatory sessions. New Peer Writing Tutors must attend all […]…Continue Reading Fall 2011 Training Dates for Peer Writing Tutors
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Session 6–Advising, Grammar, People Who Can Help, WID
This session is on WEDNESDAY, October 13, 4:30-6:30 Mentor Training Session 6 – Topics: Advising, Grammar Review, People Who Can Help. Note: This session is on WEDNESDAY. Trained PWTS attend from 4:30-5:30. The second hour is optional for you. Trained ACES (and PWTS who did Pre-Advising) need only attend from 5:30-6:30. The first hour is […]…Continue Reading Session 6–Advising, Grammar, People Who Can Help, WID
Session 5–Problems Students Face
Thursday, October 7, CTLR, Davis Family Library 225 All New Peer Writing Tutors Must Attend. All First-Year Seminar Mentors (except previously trained PWTS) must attend. First Hour: Problems Students Face Second Hour: Educators not Editors–Working with Multilingual Students with Shawna Shapiro Optional for Trained Peer Writing Tutors. Unfortunately, optional means unpaid. If you have a […]…Continue Reading Session 5–Problems Students Face
Session 4 Oral Presentation
Useful handouts from this session: Oral Presentation Yonna’s Rubric Tips for Talks First-Year Seminar Mentors for Academics and Writing This is a mandatory session for First-Year Seminar Mentors—even those already trained as Peer Writing Tutors and ACEs. You will learn much that you can use as a student and much for you to use in […]…Continue Reading Session 4 Oral Presentation
Follow-up to thesis statment development
How to Form a Thesis Statement Choose a Topic. What is a Topic? Define a PROBLEM within your topic. How? Explore/ Analyze the PROBLEM. How? Create a Thesis Statement. What is a Thesis Statement? Find evidence that supports the Thesis Statement. How? Organize your writing around your Thesis Statement. How? (Answers in How to Form […]…Continue Reading Follow-up to thesis statment development
Session 2 Getting Started Thursday, Sept. 16 4:30-6:30 PM, CTLR
It was wonderful to see so many Peer Writing Tutors and First-Year Seminar Mentors for Academics and Writing in CTLR this Thursday. We have 47 Mentors in First-Year Seminars, 15 Peer Writing Tutors in college writing and writing program classes, and thirteen Peer Writing Tutors conducting drop-in shifts in CTLR and Brainerd Commons. This Thursday, […]…Continue Reading Session 2 Getting Started Thursday, Sept. 16 4:30-6:30 PM, CTLR