Thursday, October 21 - Sign up for time in Center

Today you turned in your observations sheets from class Thurs Oct 14 & Tues Oct 19, and we talked about how you were doing on your persuasive essay drafts. I will be reading your revised drafts over the weekend. I will look at your first draft, your plan for revising + your revised draft to get a snapshot of how you work on your writing.

We also reviewed the requirements for coaching in the center as it is written up on the course syllabus, and you signed up for 1 hour per week when you will participate in the center. You will write up a tutor observation sheet for each time period - either to document your own session, or to document your observation of work by one of the WC sessions. You will write observation sheets after the session - as you were instructed during your introduction to the Center (on either 10/14 or 10/19).

Here is the list of times you signed up for, with the name of the GA who will be there to work with you and answer questions.

Monday - 11:00 - Sam
Chris O'Keeffe

Monday - 12:00 - Sam
Kate Venter

Kristi Froisland

Monday 3:00 Eric

Melissa Flores

Lindsay Ireland

Tuesday 1:00 Angela

Alexandria Addesso

Kyle McLaughlin

Yurani Perez
Caroline Vargas

Tuesday 2:00 Angela

Sabrina DeJesus
Dina Rodrigues

Tuesday 3:00 Angela
Alexa Guillen

Bryan Erickson

Friday 12:00 Sam

Kyanna Sampson

George Bogner

Rees Kalthoff

If you have not yet signed up - you be sure to sign up for a time in class on Tuesday.

I passed out tutor observation sheets in class. Make copies so you can document your sessions.

Finally, we talked about R&Z's chapter on "Helping Writers Across the Curriculum." We listed the common genres that writers bring to the writing center and then discussed the main features of some of the less familiar genres. We also discussed strategies for working with a writer who wants help with a genre you are not familiar with. Assignment sheets, handbooks, online sites such as the Purdue OWL - and the GAs are all important resources. Remember that most of the time your purpose as a writing coach will be to ask questions to help the writer clarify his/her thoughts - and focus on the features of the essay s/he needs to work on.

No homework- except to begin attending & documenting sessions in the Writing Center at your assigned times. Be sure to sign in.

See you on Tuesday.

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