Programs: Writing Workshop
Projects: Success Challenge Program
Writing Workshop will continue the partnership we began in Spring 2004 with CSTW to provide tutoring for students in English 109 classes. The Success Challenge Partnership is evolving to use e-portfolios as a primary means for at risk students to receive additional feedback on their writing and digital composing. Future plans might include: focus groups of 109 students to collect information about the impact of e-portfolios on their writing and college work and a possible long-term longitudinal study of undergraduate writing a public, land-grant research university.Writing Center Tutors
- Will respond three times a quarter to 109 students: twice via e-portfolio, once face-to-face or online
- Will attend one class meeting during Week 2 (preferably T or R) to meet students and participate in discussion of response practices.
- Will act as readers/responders to alphabetic and/or digital media compositions.
- Will not act as editors or as technical instructors
Writing Workshop Teachers
- Will use e-portfolios as a mechanism for sharing assignments inside and outside of classes.
- Will set up a schedule in which students get feedback from some source (teacher, classmates, WC tutors) at least once a week.
- Will plan a class meeting during Week 2 (preferably T or R) in which they discuss/demonstrate responding practices for that class. (Does the class generate response questions? Do individual writers ask for specific responses? Does the teacher provide guidelines for response? Are there different kinds of responses given the drafting stage of the assignment?)
- Will provide all technical assistance for digitally composed assignments.
- Will prepare assignment and response materials for joint meeting with *WC tutors sometime on Tuesday, September 20 or evening of Monday, September 19.
Long-Term
- Will possibly participate in research project on impact of e-portfolio response.
PWC Director
- Will act as liaison between WC and WW, meeting with both groups in an official capacity.
- Will work with WC Director to set up schedule for face-to-face Week 2 WC/109 visits.
WW Coordinator
- Mid-August: Will pass along information about numbers and schedule of 109 sections to WC Director and PWC Director (when schedules are determined).
- Will set up schedule for response by teacher/ class. One-third of the 109 classes will get WC responses during weeks 2, 5, 8. One-third will get responses during weeks 3, 6, 9. One-third will get responses during weeks 4, 7, 10.
Long-Term
- Will consider re-vamping 109 schedule for Winter 2006 or later to operate on a three-day a week schedule (MTR, TWF, etc.)
WC Director
- Will touch base with Steve Acker/ TELR about this project, about possible additional funding for follow-up.
- Will look at revising IRB for high school project to include first-year students.
CSTW Director
- Will report to Ed Adelson in ASC, including how this plan has evolved to make use of e-portfolios and to include composing beyond alphabetic literacy.This project is sponsored by Success Challenge Funds from the Federation of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences and CSTW.
