RE: tutors in two year schools

[Ellen Mohr <emohr@johnco.cc.ks.us>]

I have directed a two-year college writing center for the past 15 years. We
hire student tutors and have been very pleased with the results. We post for
students who have completed our freshmen comp program (Comp. 121 and 122),
ask for instructor recommendations, visit comp. classes, conduct interviews
and give a short exam to applicants. We then provide a comprehensive
training program which is CRLA accredited. In 1991, I wrote a study of tutor
programs in community colleges; it is published in ERIC(ED332777) and
another article Employing Undergraduate Students as Peer Tutors was
published in the Writing Lab Newsletter Vol. 10, No. 6.

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> From: 	Taylor, Ellen M[SMTP:TAYLOREM@Cobleskill.edu]
> Reply To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, October 23, 1998 10:59 AM
> To: 	'writing center list sub'
> Subject: 	tutors in two year schools
> 
> I am starting a writing center at SUNY Cobleskill, primarily a two year
> school in up state New York.  Can anyone recommend resources which deal
> with
> hiring and training writing tutors in a two-year environment?  Any leads
> would be appreciated
> 
> Ellen Taylor
>