Title: INTERNSHIP IN TECHNICAL WRITING OR EDITING

PRQ: Consent of department internship coordinator.

This 3-credit course trains graduate students to tutor writers in different disciplines, to coach writing teams, to respond to online writers, and to assist writers whose native language is not English.  Students will work with various writing samples, formats, and texts, as well as conduct research with faculty who integrate writing in their courses.  ENGL 628: Tutoring Writing will also introduce important theories about writing center work and cross-disciplinary writing that tutors must know and apply. Students get the opportunity to observe experienced tutors in action before conducting their own supervised sessions. By enrolling in ENGL 628, students not only learn how to teach in, but also to administrate a writing center-- knowledge that can enhance their job search if they seek employment in teaching or other professions where writing plays a key role.

1. Study of writing assignments and an NIU professor's approach to writing instruction.

2.  Observations of tutors in action and a self-evaluation of one's own experience tutoring.

3.  Responses in writing to different samples of student writing.

4.  Research paper on a topic of importance in writing center teaching and administration.

            Gillespie, Paula & Neal Lerner, The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring,

                        ISBN: 0205297668.

Grimm, Nancy, Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times,

            ISBN: 0867094877.

Barnett, Robert & Jacob Blumner, eds. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice.