Tutorial Practicum

This is a training course for peer tutors. Through readings, journal responses, discussions, and practical experience, the course introduces students to the theories used in writing center work as well as the practical application of those theories. Tutors peer-critique, self-monitor, and tutor. The main objective is for students to become effective peer tutors and better writers.

In this two-semester course, students participate in a comprehensive training experience designed to thoroughly familiarize them with the tutoring process by means of videotape viewing, readings, discussion, and supervised practicum in the local elementary schools.