Journal #11 Dos of Being a Writing Fellow: -write down what your peer says when you’re talking about the paper at first, this is the most casual and genuine they’ll probably be throughout the whole meeting. -email your peers if you get something wrong. They’ll probably want to know that the running head is supposed … [Read more…]
Journal #10 High school was, by no means, the best of my social life. Being a by-the-book band geek, in a by-the-book suburban town- probably didn’t help that experience. And being a drum major (that’s the person that stands in front of the entire marching band, with a feather on their head, and waves their … [Read more…]
Journal #8 Chapter 12 of Gillespie and Lerner’s The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring, “Interdisciplinary and On-Line Tutoring”, nicely addressed the remaining questions I had about tutoring. The first few pages of the chapter on interdisciplinary writing helped me find answers to most of them. Especially poignant, were the ideas made on the page number 155, … [Read more…]
Journal #7 From my recent, brief experiences (which consist of Wednesday’s and yesterday’s meetings), my peers have not been engaging in reading at all. Admittedly, they’re honest about this, and whenever I ask if they’ve read their sources they usually say that they’ve skimmed them or looked over them, but they don’t know what any … [Read more…]
Journal #6 At the risk of sounding cliche, being a writing fellow has pretty much changed the course of my future. Being part of this program has opened up doors to a series of opportunities that have, ultimately, lead me to change my major. That being said, I still want to do the same … [Read more…]
Journal #5 Going into week 6, I’m grateful that I have the practicum to attend in tandem with my recent integration into Dr. Anderson’s class. Without the advice given in The Longman Guide to Tutoring I think these beginning stages of being a writing fellow would feel like I was walking, blindfolded, into the ocean. Now, … [Read more…]
Journal #4 In reflecting on the mock-tutoring session that occurred during the last practicum, I find myself wishing I had done things a little bit differently. As the mock-fellow, I wish I had gained a little bit more report with the student. I think this might have helped (had it not been David’s job to … [Read more…]
Journal #3 In this weeks reading of, The Longman Guide to Tutoring, several of the points Gillespie and Lerner made resonated with me. The more explicit of them being: take notes, and listen. (73,87) Specifically, I found myself pondering the “…power of silence.”. (P. 87) As someone who finds themselves experiencing a rather substantial amount of … [Read more…]
Journal #2 Admittedly, I had a hard time with this assignment. The writer of American Ethics made some poignant, and potentially beautiful, remarks. This was unfortunately juxtaposed by the overall inconsistent tone of the essay- which lacked personality. I found myself reading this essay and asking myself, ‘Why do I care?’. As a reader, finding the … [Read more…]
Journal #1 Paul Gillespie and Neil Lerner’s The Longman Guide to Tutoring includes an extremely well-articulated list of writing techniques and processes. To say that the procedures they detail, juxtapose my personal writing style, would be an (almost offensive) understatement. To me, the images their list evokes are ones of clearly written outlines; beautifully annotated … [Read more…]
