Coaching and Caring: Three Options for Increasing Student Success in Corequisite English Courses through Writing Center Collaboration
Location
PARB 239 (Second Floor)
Proposal Track
Practice Report
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
In this session, the College of Coastal Georgia’s Writing Center Director and a corequisite English instructor will describe how their partnership supports corequisite students as the students work through different types of writing assignments and situations. The strategies used by the writing coaches in the Writing Center are all in addition to the intensive one-on-one work completed by the corequisite instructor; however, there is a special bond that happens between the corequisite students and the fellow students who are their peer writing coaches. The coaches model how to talk about and respond to fellow students’ writings, and these activities become useful in the students’ corequisite classes as well as the partner ENGL 1101 class. The coaches talk through their own experiences of revising a paper and how this transformational act is necessary for readers. Finally, the coaches provide a safe space to practice new skills, such as citation conventions and advanced sentence structuring. Overall, the inclusion of writing coaches within the corequisite class can provide another avenue for support toward student success.
Keywords
Writing, Peer-Coaching, Collaboration, Student Success
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Conner, Stephanie B. and Gray, Jennifer P., "Coaching and Caring: Three Options for Increasing Student Success in Corequisite English Courses through Writing Center Collaboration" (2022). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 13.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2022/2022/13
Coaching and Caring: Three Options for Increasing Student Success in Corequisite English Courses through Writing Center Collaboration
PARB 239 (Second Floor)
In this session, the College of Coastal Georgia’s Writing Center Director and a corequisite English instructor will describe how their partnership supports corequisite students as the students work through different types of writing assignments and situations. The strategies used by the writing coaches in the Writing Center are all in addition to the intensive one-on-one work completed by the corequisite instructor; however, there is a special bond that happens between the corequisite students and the fellow students who are their peer writing coaches. The coaches model how to talk about and respond to fellow students’ writings, and these activities become useful in the students’ corequisite classes as well as the partner ENGL 1101 class. The coaches talk through their own experiences of revising a paper and how this transformational act is necessary for readers. Finally, the coaches provide a safe space to practice new skills, such as citation conventions and advanced sentence structuring. Overall, the inclusion of writing coaches within the corequisite class can provide another avenue for support toward student success.
