Re: the 'logic' of training tutors thru' EN

[Joan Mullin <jmullin@uoft02.utoledo.edu>]

Our Current Writing Theory course is run with the same philosophy as Bob's
(below), only with a difference: ours is an undergraduate/graduate course
with 400/600 and 800 numbers.

joan

>Our 3-credit course is called Eng. 363: Seminar in Collaborative Writing
>Theory and Practice. We changed the name from Tutor Training seminar for
>some of the same reasons you have articulated. With our new name it
>doesn't look so much like a tutor training course. In fact, (1) taking the
>course does not mean a student will become a tutor--students are still
>interviewed after the course, (2) studens can take the course even if they
>don't plan to become tutors because (3) it counts toward the writing and
>technical writing majors and minors.
>
>Bob Barnett
>U. of Michigan-Flint
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