A Writing Fellow or Fellow in Writing is a tutor or
consultant
A consultant (from la, consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice and other purposeful activities in an area of specialization.
Consulting servic ...
who assists with
college
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and
university
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writing instruction in specific
courses or academic fields. Whereas most
Writing Center Writing centers provide students with assistance on their papers, projects, reports, multi-modal documents, web pages, and other writerly needs across disciplines. Although writing center staff are often referred to as Tutors, writing centers are p ...
tutors are generalists, ready to work with writing from any course or field, Writing Fellows are specialists. Often working within a Writing Center or Writing Across a Curriculum program, they typically provide oral and/or written feedback on papers to students in an upper-division writing class. A Writing Fellow is most often a
peer tutor Peer mentoring is a form of mentorship that usually takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee). An example would be an experienced student being ...
; however, the term "Writing Fellow" is also sometimes used for faculty members who advise others on teaching, assigning and responding to student writing in their specific disciplines.
See also
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Composition studies
Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction, focusing especially on writing at the college leve ...
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Writing Center Writing centers provide students with assistance on their papers, projects, reports, multi-modal documents, web pages, and other writerly needs across disciplines. Although writing center staff are often referred to as Tutors, writing centers are p ...
External links
Barnard College Writing Fellows ProgramBrown University Writing FellowsMIT's Department of Biological Engineering, Writing Fellow ProgramSpecial issue of ''Across the Disciplines'' on Rewriting Across the Curriculum: Writing Fellows as Agents of Change in WACThe City College Writing Fellows ProgramUniversity College Falmouth Writing Fellows*
ttp://wac.colostate.edu/fellows/ Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse--List of Writing Fellows Programs
Academic terminology
Education and training occupations
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