Re: help in developing tutor training seminars

[Muriel Harris <harrism@omni.cc.purdue.edu>]

Hi Isabelle, and congratulations on your new position as Director of
your English Center.

If you want information about tutor training and other topics having
to do with administration and running a center, the publication I edit
may be of help, the Writing Lab Newsletter. It's a monthly
publication, with articles every month about all kinds of useful
topics. There's also an index both in hard copy and on disk to back
issues where you could search for all the materials on tutor
training. If you're interested in the Newsletter ($15/year), contact
our newsletter assistant about a subscription, the index, back issues,
etc:
	Mary Jo Turley
	turleymj@cc.purdue.edu
	765-494-7268

Mary Jo can also send you a resource sheet with lists of tutor
training manuals, etc.

Good luck on your new job!

Muriel Harris




> 
> I am a newly appointed director of the English Center at Auburn
> University.  Although the Department Head and I played around with
> development of our Center last year, the 1997-98 academic year will be my
> first real shot at doing something interesting and worthwhile.
> 
> The most worthwhile thing that I could think of to start with is to begin
> tutor development seminars.  The tutors in the Center are all graduate
> students; our major constituency is undergraduates enrolled in freshman
> composition, Great Books courses, and advanced writing courses.  I am
> hoping for some advice from those of you who are at similar universities
> and who have already established tutor development seminars.  Can you give
> any clues for on-line help or can you send me any paper (I'll copy it and
> send it back to you)
> 
> My snail mail address is:
> 
> Isabelle Thompson
> 9030 Haley Center
> English Department
> Auburn University, AL 36849
> 
> e-mail: thompis@mail.auburn.edu
> 
> I am very pleased to be a fledgling member of such a good group of
> people.  ( I've been list lurking for a while.)
> 
> Isabelle Thompson
> 
> 
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-- 
Mickey Harris
harrism@omni.cc.purdue.edu