A Tale of Two Courses: Using Praxis to Link Writing Center Training with First-Year Composition

Autor/inn/en	Gordon, Barbara L.; Kircher, Cassandra
Titel	A Tale of Two Courses: Using Praxis to Link Writing Center Training with First-Year Composition
Quelle	In: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 40 (2012) 2, S.163-176 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6291
Schlagwörter	Laboratories; Writing (Composition); Two Year Colleges; Training; Consultants; Two Year College Students; Freshman Composition; Praxis; Writing Instruction; Assignments; Cooperation; Class Activities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Laboratory; Laboratorium; Schreibübung; Ausbildung; Consultant; Berater; Schreibunterricht; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	In the best of times, students training to be writing center consultants are empowered to work creatively with writers and professors as part of an integrated enterprise that contributes to teaching and learning on their campuses. In the worst of times, students training to be writing center consultants are disempowered, caught between faculty and students and seen as incidental to classroom instruction. The authors sought to create the best of times by embarking on a collaboration that differed to a notable extent from past attempts to bring writing center instruction out from a fixed space. They initially began their partnership because writing center consultants were unable to immediately apply what they were learning in their training class. However, their aim ultimately became to advance not only the educational goals of a writing center training course but also those of a first-year composition course through interweaving assignments and class activities. They sought to create an interdependent space that would enable students in first-year composition to have individualized consulting for each of their major assignments while providing the writing center students with an experience that put praxis at the heart of their learning. This article explicates the benefits of linking writing center consultant training with first-year composition and provides readers with guidance for engaging in such a collaboration. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10