Audiovisual Podcasts

The Manifesto

Peer writing consultants and advanced exposition students call for a new kind of instructor feedback.

Assignments: Mindful or Mindless

Student writers and professors discuss the pitfalls and possibilities of that unique instructor genre: the writing assignment.

Prewriting

Peer writing consultants dramatize and then explain the importance of prewriting when it comes to writing a paper. 

Revision Strategies

Peer writing consultants take a humorous look at revision strategies and explain the differences between revising and editing.

Affective Tutoring Tales (Part I)

Affective Tutoring Tales (Part II)

This mini-documentary consists of interviews with several peer writing consultants who recount sessions in which they had to tend to a writer's emotions.  This film is useful for training writing consultants.  

Audio Podcasts

Writing in the Sciences

Dr. Kim Shaw, Director of the Math and Science Learning Center, and Amanda and Sheena Holley, two senior biology majors, explain the characteristics of science writing.

Writing in Education

Dr. Deirdre Greer, Assistant to the Chair of the Department of Education and Program Coordinator of Early Childhood Education, and Ian Turi, junior History-Secondary Education major, explain the types of writing education majors do.

New "A Tale of Two Writers" and "Affective Tutoring Tales" now on iTunes U!

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