ENG 275 - Writing Center Theory

This course is designed primarily to prepare writing consultants for the Simpson Writing Center, but is is open to anyone interested in teaching writing. Provides the fundametnals of writing center theory, emphasizing writing processes, genre awareness, interpersonal dynamics, evaluation of writing-in-progress, and rhetorical theory as it pertains to working one-to-one with writers. Through readings, discussions, corpus analysis, and presentations, students develop the necessary vocabulary and skills to help themselves and their peers improve as communicators. This course can be taken before or after a student takes ENG 270 - Writing Center Practice. By permission of instructor only.

Credit(s): 2
Prerequisite(s): SC 111
Offered: every spring.