Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2025

Establishing Best Practices: Guidelines for Starting or Improving an Embedded Tutoring Program in the Writing Center

Caitie Wisniewski ; Elizabeth Busekrus Blackmon

Abstract

In recent years, the college writing center at our community college began an embedded tutoring program in hopes of reaching more developmental English students. A combination of the pandemic and the temporary shift to online-only tutoring, pandemic funding opportunities, and changes in the college’s developmental education program led tutors to rethink how best to help developmental students succeed. Ultimately, this article shows that developing our embedded tutoring program facilitated a partnership between instructors, tutors, and students that resulted in higher academic performance, student and faculty engagement, and faculty buy-in.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2025-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc2025523295
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first-year composition two-year college writing centers
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