ENG-4 — Writing Tutor Training

Prerequisite: ENG-1A or ENG-1AH.

Description: Designed to prepare students to become peer tutors in the Writing Center. Participants learn specific tutoring techniques and discuss problems, questions, and challenges in tutoring writing. Tutors develop student-centered, non-intrusive tutoring skills that avoid appropriating the text (i.e., becoming a proofreader, editor, or co-author). Topics include theory and practice of tutoring writing, including writing as a process, interpersonal communication techniques, cross-cultural tutoring, group learning, and computer programs applicable to writing instruction. 27 hours lecture and 27 hours laboratory. (TBA option) (Letter grade only)