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Support
for Teaching
The staff of
the Writing Center can support your teaching efforts by providing
Faculty members are
welcome to attend one or more of our weekly peer tutor meetings to discuss
their expectations for assignments that their students will be bringing
to the Writing Center. If you wish to attend a tutor meeting, please call
the Writing Center at 577-3141 and speak with one of the consultants.
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Tutoring
for Your Students
Professional and student tutors consult with students on individual and
collaborative writing projects. We can work with students at any stage
of the writing process, from brainstorming through drafts and revisions.
We can also help students develop their oral presentation skills. Tutors
are experienced in working with international and learning disabled students.
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Course
Design Consultations
The professional staff is available to consult with you on various aspects
of your course design. If you want to tinker with your writing assignments,
try some new ways of responding to student writing, have your students work
in groups, or learn how others at Bucknell and elsewhere are using writing
to improve student learning, we would be happy to work with you.
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Classroom
Workshops
Writing Center staff members are available to conduct the following workshops
for your students during class meetings (1 to 1 1/2 hours).
Writing
Process Workshop - Students examine their own writing process, discover
what other writers do, consider improvements they would like to make in
their writing methods, and learn techniques for doing so. This workshop
is aimed at improving the way students go about planning, writing, and
revising.
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Writer-Centered
Peer Response Workshop - Students learn and practice useful strategies
for responding constructively to each other's writing. In the process,
they learn how to identify and articulate questions about their own drafts.
This workshop is best scheduled when students have written a first draft
of an assignment.
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Oral
Presentation Workshop - In this practice session, students learn effective
oral delivery techniques and methods of providing constructive responses
that will help a fellow speaker improve. This workshop is useful when
students have been given an oral presentation assignment.
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Individual
Consultations on Writing
Many members of the faculty and staff consult us about their own writing.
In private sessions you can talk about your ideas, read us your draft,
revise a chapter of your book, edit your dissertation, or practice a professional
presentation.
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Teaching Materials
The Writing Center staff will gladly send or lend articles, books, and
other teaching materials, including the ones listed below:
- A large
collection of course syllabi and writing assignments gleaned
over the years from courses in many disciplines. These course descriptions
and assignments incorporate writing as a process, active and collaborative
learning strategies, and many other useful teaching ideas.
- Booklets
on how to teach writing at Bucknell — Packets of photocopied
materials developed for our teaching workshops (out of that context
they might occasionally mystify). These packets include articles, assignments,
Bucknell course materials, and samples of Bucknell student writing.
The series addresses such issues as the old and new models of writing
instruction,the process approach to teaching writing, creating assignments,
responding to and evaluating student writing,using peer response in
the classroom, and revising.
- Books
on the teaching of writing in various disciplines, including business,
engineering, the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities.
- Articles
on gender, race, and class issues in the teaching of writing.
- "Guidelines
for Nonsexist Use of Language" from The National Council of Teachers
of English.
- A wide variety
of grammar references and handbooks on style and usage
- Videotapes
on the writing process and editing suitable for classroom use (Order
through Instructional Media Services--577-7777). Also videotapes on
how to teach students to work in groups.
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Writing
Center
100A Roberts Hall
phone: (570)577-3141
© Bucknell University 2002
comments to: Sabrina Kirby
last updated:
02/17/2004
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