Mar 28, 2024  
2012-2013 Course Catalog 
    
2012-2013 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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52-3100 Writing Center Theory and Practice


Course covers basics of peer tutoring in writing skills. Emphasis is on developing skills in the following areas: 1) peer tutoring techniques and interpersonal communication, 2) writing process–critical analysis, 3) error identification–grammar and punctuation, 4) writing across the curriculum. Students often begin peer tutoring early in the semester, and the dynamics of the sessions are analyzed and discussed in class. This is a hands-on course, combining Writing Center theory and practice. Successful students of this course tutor their peers in Columbia’s Writing Center.

3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning 



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