ENG 4 - Writing Tutor Training

Institution:

Riverside City College

Subject:

Description:

CSU Prerequisite: ENG-1A. Designed to prepare students to become peer tutors in the Writing Center. Participants learn specific tutoring techniques and discuss problems, questions, and challenges in tutoring writing. Tutors develop student-centered, non-intrusive tutoring skills that avoid "appropriating the text" (i.e., becoming a proofreader, editor, or co-author). Topics include theory and practice of tutoring writing, including writing as a process, interpersonal communication techniques, cross-cultural tutoring, group learning, and computer programs applicable to writing instruction. May be taken a total of two times. 27 hours lecture and 27 hours laboratory.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.rcc.edu/riverside/

Phone Number:

(951) 222-8000 ext 8979

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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