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Cultivating Voice II

For current CV II students!

News and Updates for Class

Syllabus and Prompts

Syllabus [PDF] (for Fall 2016)

Course Readings

Week 2
Cultivating Voice [PDF] - Alex Eisenberg (Inkwell 7)
Breaking Ice and Setting Goals [PDF] - Shanti Bruce (ELS Writers)
Tutoring When the Writer Does Not Have a Draft [PDF] - MacAndrew, Reigstad, and Strickland (Tutoring Writing, 2001)
About Responding to Student Writing [PDF] - Peter Elbow

Week 4
The Tutoring Process [PDF] - (Tutoring Writing)
What Tutoring Writing Isn’t [PDF] - (Tutoring Writing)
Redefining Authority [PDF] - Sandy Yannone (Inkwell 2)
Minimalist Tutoring [PDF] - Jeff Brooks (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 1991)

Week 6
Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers [PDF] - (A Tutor’s Guide)
Use Your Words [PDF] - Thane Fay (Inkwell 8)
Considering the Role of Silence [PDF] - David Hunter (Inkwell 2)
I Don't Know, What Do You Think? [PDF] - Mary Kallem (Inkwell 8)

Week 8
Editing Line by Line [PDF] - Cynthia Linville (ELS Writers, 2009)
Can You Proofread This? [PDF] - (A Tutor’s Guide)
Writing from Life [PDF] - Chris Wukasch (Inkwell 7)

Week 10
Why Knows Best? [PDF] - Caryn Dudley (Inkwell 9)

Additional Resources

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children [PDF] (Lisa D. Delpit, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 53 No. 3, Aug 1988)