{"id":1899,"date":"2014-04-02T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:50:18","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/letter-to-the-editor-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor – April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the Editor in Chief:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In regard to the article \u201cWriting Fellows perfect peers\u2019 prose\u201d published in the March 2014 edition of In Motion<\/em>, we\u2019re pleased that there was an interest in informing readers about the Writing Fellows Program here at Daytona State College.<\/p>\n

The Writing Fellows Program is a part of the Writing Across the Curriculum\/Writing-in-the-Disciplines, also known as the WAC\/WID Program, and is an initiative to place qualified and trained student writing tutors into specific classes to:<\/p>\n

\u25cb Assist students of that class with all of their course-related writing needs and goals<\/p>\n

\u25cb Act as an additional avenue of conversation between students and the professor.<\/p>\n

A Writing Fellow is a student of Daytona State or UCF who is recommended by a faculty member who can speak to the student\u2019s writing and leadership abilities. Writing Fellow candidates are then interviewed for any open Writing Fellow positions in the Daytona State College \u2013 University of Central Florida Writing Center.<\/p>\n

Those students chosen as Writing Fellow candidates then attend a week-long, 11-hour training session at the beginning of the semester that:<\/p>\n

\u25cb Orients them to the goals of the WAC-WID and Writing Fellows Programs<\/p>\n

\u25cb Provides guidelines for working with the students, Faculty, and staff involved with the Programs<\/p>\n

\u25cb Offers recommendations and guidelines on various situations that might arise during the course of the Program.<\/p>\n

Once candidates have satisfactorily completed the training session, they begin their duties as Writing Fellows, which include: Spending 3 hours per week attending the class they are a Writing Fellow for; offering six hours per week of one-on-one tutoring appointments in the DSC-UCF Writing Center for the class\u2019s students; performing an hour weekly lab for the class\u2019s students; helping students with their writing assignments; assisting with assignment design (if desired by the professor); serving as a resource for the faculty member and students; and receiving continuous training, support, and feedback from DSC-UCF Writing Center staff throughout their employment.<\/p>\n

Currently, Writing Fellows serve courses on the Daytona and Deltona campuses of Daytona State and UCF. One of the goals of the program is to have Writing Fellow support on all campuses; this is dependent upon where WAC-WID Faculty teach.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Writing Fellows Program is a unique opportunity for Daytona State and UCF students that offers them the opportunity to provide dedicated writing assistance for their peers in a particular course and discipline.<\/p>\n

\u2014Chris Gebhardt, Coordinator, DSC-UCF Writing Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the Editor in Chief: In regard to the article \u201cWriting Fellows perfect peers\u2019 prose\u201d published in the March 2014 edition of In Motion, we\u2019re pleased that there was an interest in informing readers about the Writing Fellows Program here at Daytona State College. The Writing Fellows Program is a Continue reading Letter to the Editor – April 2014<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}