Detailed Description: Tufts University Writing Fellows Program

http://ase.tufts.edu/wts-writingfellows/

The following description is taken from the Tufts site: We invite faculty to join the Writing Fellows Program for next year. If you will be offering a course requiring a substantial amount of writing, you can obtain the assistance of undergraduate or graduate Writing Fellows, students nominated by faculty for their writing abilities and communication skills.

Undergraduate Fellows are trained in a course on writing theory and pedagogy, are assigned to classes in their major, and meet with small groups of students to discuss early drafts of papers and offer suggestions for revision. Graduate Fellows run discussion sections in large lecture classes and work with students on writing as well as on the course material. All students in classes which participate in the Program are required to revise their essays before handing them in to the instructor.

If you decide to join the program, you will be asked to attend a one-day workshop on May 14, 2001, consult with your Fellows regularly, and meet with colleagues twice during the semester in which you are offering the course. You will be paid a stipend for attending these meetings.