Re: Promoting the tutoring course

[writing@COLBY.EDU (Colby Writing Center)]

Jean--

This year, I sent a letter to all teaching faculty asking them to recommend
strong writers in their courses to take the tutor training course. I got a
lot of responses (some of these professors circulated my letter during
class so that students who were interested could come talk to me themselves
about what being a tutor was like and if they would be interested in
becoming one) I the sent out "solicitation letters" to those students who
were recommended by their professors telling them about the tutor training
course, what they could get out of it and how they could sign up. It seemed
to work pretty well.

Last year, we tried advertising the course on table tents in the dining
halls--26 students signed up for the course! If you are looking for a fast
effective way, you might want to try it.

Karen Rose
Colby Writers' Center
klrose@colby.edu

>Centaurs,
>    I have gotten approval from the Dean to offer a course called
>Practicum in Writing Consultation for fall.  So far that is all it is-
>-a name.  I have been going through syllabi collected by Kelly Childs
>and posts I have saved from many of you all last semester as I try to
>design a prospectus and choose texts.
>    My immediate problem is that students will be registering for
>fall in a couple of weeks, and I need to "sell" this course fast.
>How have others of you gone about promoting your writing consultant
>training courses?  I would love to see sample letters to students and
>faculty extolling the advantages of taking this course over other
>electives they could choose.
>    I would never have had the nerve to propose this course or the
>resources to teach it if it hadn't been for all of you.  Thanks.
>
>Jean
>
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>Jean Timpel
>Concordia University-Wisconsin
>12800 N. Lake Shore Drive
>Mequon. WI 53097
>jtimpel@bach.cuw.edu
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