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Archive for November 26th, 2014

When Commenting on Student Writing, Use This Shortcut with Extreme Care

By Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center I’ve encountered both good and not so good practices for tutoring and teaching writing over the past twenty years, and the difference […]

Reflections on Tutor Research and Lessons Learned

By Chrissine Rios, Kaplan University Writing Center I took a Teacher Research course during the first semester of my graduate program. I would be teaching composition as a graduate assistant […]

The Makings of a Great Online Writing Center

by Chrissine Rios, Writing Tutor, Kaplan University Writing Center The North Carolina division of the Southeast Writing Center Association held a Writing Consultant Retreat on September 13 to foster community among writing […]

Ten Truths Tutors Keep from Students

  Students tell tutors what they would never tell their instructors: that their children do their Internet research, that they don’t speak English so are using an online translator, that […]

To Build Confident ELL Writers, Focus on Strengths

One of my new graduate students in the English Language Learner (ELL) Tutoring and Outreach Program forwarded an email to me from her professor to show that she was given […]

Flags

Since yesterday was Flag Day, I thought I would talk about, well, flags.  Flags whether big or small are flying icons connecting history and the present moment. Flags stand for […]

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area.

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area. As Sheryl Bone and I put the final changes on our presentation for the International Writing Across […]

“Tutor experience” research opportunity

Two graduate students and tutors at the Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Lindsay Sabatino and Jessica Showalter, have an exciting research project they will be presenting at the […]