English 41

Asst. Prof. David Holper

Office: LS100

Office Hours

Writing Center Hours

Telephone: 476-4370

david-holper@redwoods.edu

English Skills Tutoring

AThe primary goal of the tutor ... is to make the student a skilled,

knowledgeable practitioner ... to work him/herself out of a job,

that is, to make the student independent.@

-- Muriel Harris

I) Texts & Materials

A) The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors 3rd edition (required) by Leigh Ryan

B) A binder for the class packet, your journals, etc.

C) English Skills (recommended) by John Langan (Eng. 350 text)

II) Objectives

A) Develop effective tutoring techniques that would include the following skills:

i) Listening

ii) Questioning

iii) Empathizing

iv) Evaluating written work

v) Recommending strategies to improve reading and writing

III) Basic Mandatory Requirements

A) Attendance of 85% of seminar classes (Translation: If you miss 4 classes, your grade will drop 10 points. If you miss 5 classes, you will fail the class.)

B) Tutoring in the Writing Center (mandatory 3 hours a week, 37.5 house for the semester at the assigned times to receive 1 unit of lab time.) Contact the Writing Center as soon as possible if you cannot make an assigned tutorial hour.

C) Class participation, very important in a seminar class

IV) Grading

A) Weekly journal 30%

B) Report to class and summary of a professional journal article(s) 10%

C) Tutoring: evaluations, maintenance of tutoring paperwork and folder, and

effort and reliability as a tutor 40%

D) Writing process paper 10%

E) Three class observations, one Eng. 350 instructor interview, one WC orientation

observation, and at least two tutoring observations in the WC 10%