Detailed Description: University of Iowa Honors Writing Fellows Program

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Each year, Iowa employs some thirty undergraduates to teach as Honors Writing Fellows. The Fellows assist with courses in a variety of fields, enabling the faculty instructors to emphasize writing as a way to learn the field. The program improves student writing and learning, while enabling faculty to accomplish more with their courses. It also benefits the Fellows themselves, who love the training, the teaching, and the related opportunities.

This innovative program is a joint initiative of Honors and the Department of Rhetoric. In its first five years, it helped more than two thousand undergraduates with major writing exercises in more than twenty departments. Each of those years, Honors Writing Fellows have presented accounts of their work to professionals at national or international meetings; and some of their work is making it into scholarly publications.