1st Edition

A Guide for Writing and Speaking Fellows Providing Discipline Specific Support Beyond the Writing Center

206 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the first guide focused specifically on training students to engage in fellows discipline-specific and course-embedded writing and speaking support. It is designed to be a readable, useful resource for students and administrators in fellows, writing center, writing in the disciplines, and other writing programs. To provide specialized disciplinary support, beyond the scope of... Read more

1. What Is a Writing and Speaking Fellows Program?  

2. Negotiating Positionality  

3. Thinking and Responding in a Disciplinary Way  

4. Inside a Fellows session: Adjusting to Student Needs  

5. Extended Beyond One-on-One and Typical Fellows Support  

6. An Ethical and Accessible Framework for Fellows Work: Drawing from Disability, Accessibility, and Universal Design  

Appendix A: Guidance and Potential Responses to Discussion Questions, Scenarios, and Activities  

Appendix B: Developing and Delivering Fellows Training  

Biography

Elisabeth L. Miller is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing and Speaking in the Disciplines program and the Writing and Speaking Initiative at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

Maureen McBride is the Director of the Writing & Speaking Center at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA and collaborates with the Writing & Speaking in the Disciplines Program to provide fellows’ support.