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Improving Students' Comprehension Of Stem Writing Conventions, Shoshannah Diehl
Improving Students' Comprehension Of Stem Writing Conventions, Shoshannah Diehl
Faculty Submissions
Recently, faculty and Writing Center staff at Marshall University partnered to improve undergraduate STEM students’ ability to clearly and efficiently communicate their knowledge of STEM concepts through discipline-specific writing conventions. We (Anna Rollins, the Writing Center director, and Kristen Lillvis, the English Graduate Programs director) corresponded with STEM faculty and coordinated writing classroom workshops in engineering, math, biology, geology, and computer science classrooms; we also hired and trained three graduate tutors who planned and facilitated each of the classroom writing workshops. The tutors had a minimum of one year experience tutoring in the Writing Center and had completed courses in …
Improving Students' Comprehension Of Stem Writing Conventions, Anna Jones Rollins
Improving Students' Comprehension Of Stem Writing Conventions, Anna Jones Rollins
Faculty Submissions
Recently, faculty and Writing Center staff at Marshall University partnered to improve undergraduate STEM students’ ability to clearly and efficiently communicate their knowledge of STEM concepts through discipline-specific writing conventions. We (Anna Rollins, the Writing Center director, and Kristen Lillvis, the English Graduate Programs director) corresponded with STEM faculty and coordinated writing classroom workshops in engineering, math, biology, geology, and computer science classrooms; we also hired and trained three graduate tutors who planned and facilitated each of the classroom writing workshops. The tutors had a minimum of one year experience tutoring in the Writing Center and had completed courses in …