Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft
Students who enroll in Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft are preparing a) to deeply examine their own writing process and listening process, and b) to unpack the sociopolitical implications of engaging with their own and others' voices.
Course Description
Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft is taught by the director of the Writing Center, Sandy Yannone.
This 2-credit course combines a seminar with a practicum to prepare students to become peer tutors at Evergreen's Writing Centers on the Tacoma or Olympia Campus. In seminar, we will explore tutoring theories, examine the role of a peer tutor, develop effective tutoring practices, and address working with writers across significant differences. In the practicum, students will observe peer tutoring and graduate to supervised tutoring.
Application
Enrollment in Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft is by application only. You will be asked to write a letter of application and to include writing samples. Email your application to yannons@evergreen.edu. Applications for Cultivating Voice are due Friday, of Week 9, winter quarter, by 3:00 pm, PST
If you would like more information about Cultivating Voice, contact yannons@evergreen.edu.
Readings
These readings are typically included in the Cultivating Voice syllabus for Olympia and Tacoma Campuses.
- Tutoring as a Radical Act [PDF] - Victoria Larkin (Inkwell 1, 2006)
- The Idea of a Writing Center [PDF] - Stephen North (College English, 1984)
- Feedback from First Grade [PDF] - Sandra Yannone (Inkwell 2, 2007)
- Responding to Student Writing [PDF] - Nancy Sommers (College Composition and Communication, 1982)
- Breaking Ice and Setting Goals [PDF] - Shanti Bruce (ELS Writers)
- An Approach to Writing and Freewriting [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)
- The Orbital Region: Re-envisioning [PDF] - Dory Nies (Inkwell 2, 2007)
- Thorough Revising [PDF] - Peter Elbow (Writing with Power, 1981)
- Minimalist Tutoring [PDF] - Jeff Brooks (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 1991)
- Mt. Edit [PDF] - Alejandra Abreu (Inkwell 2, 2007)
- Women's Work: The Fence Around the Fire [PDF] - Anya Albers, afterword by Trevor van Dyke (Inkwell 6, 2011)
- Trio: The Long Road to Advocacy [PDF] - Paul Johnson, Josie Jarvis, and Haley Bea (Inkwell 8, 2013)
- "But I Write the Way I Talk": Inclusion and Exclusion in American Academic Writing [PDF] - Marissa Luck, foreword by Marisa Schneidman (Inkwell 6, 2011)
- What Tutoring Writing Isn’t [PDF] - (Tutoring Writing)
- The Socratic Method: The Answer for the New Tutor [PDF] - Brooke Ann Smith (The Writing lab Newsletter, 2005)
- Editing Line by Line [PDF] - Cynthia Linville (ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors, 2009)
- Going Global, Becoming Translingual: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center; Imposter in the Writing Center—Trials of a Non-Native Tutor - Noreen G. Lape; Helena Wahlstrom [PDF] (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 2013)
- Sitting on Top of the World: A Multilingual Writing Center? - Manuel Herrero-Puertas [Web link] (Another Word: The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Rethinking our Work with Multilingual Writers: The Ethics and Responsibility of Language Teaching in the Writing Center - Bobbi Olson [PDF] (Praxis: A Writing Center Journal)
- Cultivating Voice [PDF] - Alex Eisenberg (Inkwell 7, 2012)
- Writing as Activism [PDF] - Elissa Goss (Inkwell 7, 2012)
- Solidarity in Fiction [PDF] - Beth Cook (Inkwell 11, 2016)
- What Tutoring Writing Isn’t [PDF] - (Tutoring Writing)
- Redefining Authority [PDF] - Sandy Yannone (Inkwell 2)
- Minimalist Tutoring [PDF] - Jeff Brooks (The Writing Lab Newsletter, 1991)
- Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers [PDF] - (A Tutor’s Guide)
- Use Your Words [PDF] - Thane Fay (Inkwell 8)
- Considering the Role of Silence [PDF] - David Hunter (Inkwell 2)
- I Don't Know, What Do You Think? [PDF] - Mary Kallem (Inkwell 8)
- Can You Proofread This? [PDF] - (A Tutor’s Guide)
- Writing from Life [PDF] - Chris Wukasch (Inkwell 7)
- A Multi-Dimensional Pedagogy for Racial Justice in Writing Centers [PDF] - Diab, Godbee, Ferrel, and Simpkins (Praxis, 2012)
- Who Knows Best? [PDF] - Caryn Dudley (Inkwell 9)
- The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children [PDF] (Lisa D. Delpit, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 53 No. 3, Aug 1988)
- English Language Learners: A Policy Research Brief [PDF] (NCTE, The James R. Squire Office for Policy Research, 2008)
- Phrase and Clause Grammar Tactics for the ESL/ELL Writing Classroom [PDF] (Dennis Sjolie, The English Journal, Vol. 95, No. 5, May 2006)
- The Changing Demographics of the United States: Rethinking the Academic Experience of English Language Learners [PDF] (Octavio Pimentel, NCTE, The Council Chronicle, Vol. 23 No. 1, Sep 2013)
- When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own [PDF] (Jacqueline Jones Royster, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 47 No. 1, Feb, 1996)
Prompts
- "How I Write" prompt [PDF]
- "My Tutoring Philosophy" prompt [PDF]
- Exit Survey [PDF]