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News and Updates for Class, Spring 2016

Olympia Campus

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Syllabus and Prompts

• Syllabus [PDF] - Updated 4/3/17
• "How I Write" prompt [PDF]
• "My Tutoring Philosophy" prompt [PDF]

Readings

Week 1

• Tutoring as a Radical Act [PDF] - Victoria Larkin (Inkwell 1, 2006)
• The Idea of a Writing Center [PDF] - Stephen North (College English, 1984)

 

Week 2

• Feedback from First Grade [PDF] - Sandra Yannone (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Writing as a Process and The Writing Grid [PDF] - Sandra Yannone (Inkwell 2, 2007)

 

Week 3

• Beingstorming [PDF] - Grant Miller (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• An Approach to Writing and Freewriting [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)

 

Week 4

• The Orbital Region: Re-envisioning [PDF] - Dory Nies (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Thorough Revising [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)
• Becoming Reader [PDF] - Meghan McNealy (Inkwell 2, 2007)

 

Week 5

• Mt. Edit [PDF] - Alejandra Abreu (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Why You Won't Find the Answer in Strunk & White [PDF] - Stanley Fish (How to Write a Sentence, 2001)

 

Week 6

• "But I Write the Way I Talk": Inclusion and Exclusion in American Academic Writing [PDF] - Marissa Luck, foreword by Marisa Schneidman (Inkwell 6, 2011)
• Women's Work: The Fence Around the Fire [PDF] - Anya Albers, afterword by Trevor van Dyke (Inkwell 6, 2011)
• Trio: The Long Road to Advocacy [PDF] - Paul Johnson, Josie Jarvis, and Haley Bea (Inkwell 8, 2013)

 

Week 7

• Responding to Student Writing [PDF] - Nancy Sommers (College Composition and Communication, 1982)
• Writing Comments on Students' Papers [PDF] - John Bean (Engaging Ideas, 2011)

 

Week 8

• The Socratic Method: The Answer for the New Tutor [PDF] - Brooke Ann Smith (The Writing lab Newsletter, 2005)
• Editing Line by Line [PDF] - Cynthia Linville (ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors, 2009)
• Writing Lab Tutors: Hidden Messages that Matter [PDF] - Grace Ritz Amigone (The Writing Center Journal) with 1 p. on body language by Sharon Williams (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 1991)

 

Week 9

• No readings this week. To be done in class: Exit Survey [PDF] (Please return a physical copy in the Writing Center to 2304F or the front desk, or email a digital copy to tescwriting@gmail.com)

 

Week 10

• Cultivating Voice [PDF] - Alex Eisenberg (Inkwell 7, 2012)

 

Further Readings

• Writing as Activism [PDF] - Elissa Goss (Inkwell 7, 2012)
• Solidarity in Fiction [PDF] - Beth Cook (Inkwell 11, 2016)

 

 

Tacoma Campus

Syllabus and Prompts

• 2017 Syllabus [PDF] - COMING SOON
• Title page to syllabus [.docx] - Updated 4/5/17
• "How I Write" prompt [PDF]
• "My Tutoring Philosophy" prompt [PDF]

Readings

Week 1

• Tutoring as a Radical Act [PDF] - Victoria Larkin (Inkwell 1, 2006)
• The Idea of a Writing Center [PDF] - Stephen North (College English, 1984)

 

Week 2

• Feedback from First Grade [PDF] - Sandra Yannone (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Writing as a Process and The Writing Grid [PDF] - Sandra Yannone (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• How I Swim [PDF] - Evelyn Pasillas (Inkwell 7, 2012)
• Silencing the Monsters [PDF] - JenAnn Eilertsen (Inkwell 9, 2014)

 

Week 3

• Beingstorming [PDF] - Grant Miller (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• An Approach to Writing and Freewriting [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)

 

Week 4

• The Orbital Region: Re-envisioning [PDF] - Dory Nies (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Thorough Revising [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)
• Becoming Reader [PDF] - Meghan McNealy (Inkwell 2, 2007)

 

Week 5

• Mt. Edit [PDF] - Alejandra Abreu (Inkwell 2, 2007)
• Why You Won't Find the Answer in Strunk & White [PDF] - Stanley Fish (How to Write a Sentence, 2001)

 

Week 6

• Responding to Student Writing [PDF] - Nancy Sommers (College Composition and Communication, 1982)
• Writing Comments on Students' Papers [PDF] - John Bean (Engaging Ideas, 2011)

 

Week 7

• "But I Write the Way I Talk": Inclusion and Exclusion in American Academic Writing [PDF] - Marissa Luck, foreword by Marisa Schneidman (Inkwell 6, 2011)
• Women's Work: The Fence Around the Fire [PDF] - Anya Albers, afterword by Trevor van Dyke (Inkwell 6, 2011)
• "Understanding Oppression: Strategies in Addressing Power and Privilege" [PDF] by Leticia Nieto and Margot F. Boyer

 

Week 8

• The Socratic Method: The Answer for the New Tutor [PDF] - Brooke Ann Smith (The Writing lab Newsletter, 2005)
• Editing Line by Line [PDF] - Cynthia Linville (ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors, 2009)
• Writing Lab Tutors: Hidden Messages that Matter [PDF] - Grace Ritz Amigone (The Writing Center Journal) with 1 p. on body language by Sharon Williams (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 1991)

Week 9

From your textbook ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors:

• Chapter 1: "Before the Conversation" - Ilona Leki
• Chapter 7: "Looking at the Whole Text" - Jennifer Staben and Kathryn Dempsey Nordhaus

 

Week 10

• ​Cultivating Voice [PDF] - Alex Eisenberg (Inkwell 7, 2012)
• To be done in class: Exit Survey [PDF]