Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2019

Feature: Where Theory and Praxis Collide: Supporting Student-Led Writing Center Research at Two-Year Colleges

Genie Giaimo

Abstract

This article demonstrates the important role that student researchers play in developing two-year college writing center assessment. As part of a tutoring practicum assignment, students from Bristol Community College co-designed a survey that assessed the perceptions of students who do and do not utilize a writing center at their mid-sized community college. Students collected 865 responses between 2014 and 2015. This article provides a road map to developing student-led RAD research through a two-year college writing center and its attendant course; it also shares positive pedagogical and programmatic outcomes from the project.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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2019-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc201930155
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first-year composition writing pedagogy two-year college assessment writing centers
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