Who are Writing Fellows?

Writing Fellows are students who are either currently training or have already trained to work as Writing Center consultants. Recognized as strong writers, Writing Fellows are recommended to the Writing Center Director by faculty members. All Writing Fellows have completed English 3256: Peer Writing Consultation. Who should consider working with a Writing Fellow? You may want to consider a Writing Fellow if you: Assign writing Want to provide your students with an opportunity to learn from their peers Enjoy collaborating with other faculty and students Wish to help students improve their writing over time Favor analytical/argumentative/content-based writing development over grammatical/mechanical/technical skills acquisition Facilitate effective peer group work What can Writing Fellows do for my students? Specially trained Writing Fellows can: Model successful collaboration strategies Model successful writing strategies (such as glossing, clustering, mapping, etc) Hold follow-up consultations with your students in the Writing Center Become "writing resources" for your students Conduct mini-lessons on writing (such as citation issues, avoiding plagiarism, thesis development, etc) How can I request a Writing Fellow for my class? Contact Dr. Eliot Rendleman, Director of the Writing Center Writing Fellows are assigned on a first come, first served basis Writing Fellows' availability is subject to their class schedules When requesting a Writing Fellow, please include the following information: Your name Class (course name and number) Time of class Place (location of class) Number of Writing Fellows requested (exact number assigned will be based on availability) Dr. Rendleman will contact you to confirm availability. For more information, contact. . . Dr. Eliot Rendleman Director of the CSU Writing Center Woodall Hall 111 706-565-4135 rendleman_eliot@colstate.edu Faculty Responses to Writing Fellows "The Writing Fellows created group environments where students were actually ENGAGED and TALKING about writing. During the class's final peer review day, I apprehensively asked the Fellows not to attend for fear that silence or the dreaded ‘It's good' would ring out. Instead, the group members were able to look at their own and each other's papers critically and ask the questions the Fellows normally would. Having had these well-trained, articulate, and intelligent Writing Fellows in each of my 1102 sections, I would undoubtedly invite them in again (even tailor my syllabus to have them in again) during peer review days for future classes." -Gretchen Nevins (ENGL 1102) Student Response to Writing Fellows "I loved the guided discussion. They led us to find the weak spots in our own papers, without blatantly calling out our errors." "Instead of getting papers back with written advice I'd never take, I got to discuss [my] ideas. It was dorky and fulfilling. I loved it." "[Writing Fellows] give me an opportunity to get ‘professional' help during class." "She provided great feedback on our papers and gave us reminders to consider when writing papers." "Citing APA-she was very knowledgeable about this and helped to clear it up." "I liked that when we read our papers out loud we were able to realize our own mistakes and things that we need to make better." "[The Writing Fellow] helped focus my thoughts onto what was being asked in the assignment." Page compiled by Julie Milner