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

[User JWERCHAN <jwerchan@osulima2.lima.ohio-state.edu>]

Hi Virginia,

(forgive me, but I have to say it: "There is a Santa Claus.")

The Ohio State University, which by some accounts is the biggest 
land-grant university in the US of A, which has an english department 
that recognizes its legitimate and historical and LOGICAL connection to 
literacy research, has English 467, "Writing and Learning," that trains 
undergraduates to be writing assistants for their peers, and teaches 
relevant linguistic principles and current educational theories involved 
in writing centers' whole interdisciplinary mission.

Tell that to your EPC and the horses they rode in on.

James Werchan
OSULIMA
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, VIRGINIA JOHNSON-7372 wrote:

> Hello and please help if you can.
> 
>    My instition's educational policy committee has brought a 
> recommendation before the faculty senate which proposes 
> (among other things) that our tutor training course be 
> removed from the English curriculum and be given a new prefix.  
>     For many reasons, that may ultimately be a 
> good thing for our Center (which is both writing and 
> reading/learning center), but EPC's rationale states that "there
> is no logical reason for designating [Tutor Training] as part 
> of the English curriculum."
>     I have clear ideas about the logic of having two courses that 
> focus primarily on writing theory and pedagogy be part of the English 
> curriculum, but what I need are examples of places where Writing 
> Center peer tutors are trained in courses that have English 
> department designations.  
>      If you would just e-mail me the name of course and department 
> designation and institution, it would help me address this notion.  
> Unfortunately the Senate meeting is tomorrow and I just uncovered a 
> copy of the recommendation yesterday, so time is short.
>      Thank you.
>      Virginia Johnson
>      Director Reading/Writing Center
>      Augustana College
>      Rock Island IL   61201
>      rwjohnson@augustana.edu
>      
> 
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