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I created this blog to encourage communication between my ENG/AST 378 students and the CTL writing Teaching Assistants (TA) and peer tutors. ENG/AST 378: Effective Tutoring through Service-Learning was created to help students learn how to tutor high school or college students in writing. Both the students attending this class and the CTL TAs and peer tutors are learning about tutoring in writing for various reasons, thus we can help each other in this "tutor community" as we continue this quest to help students improve their academic writing skills. Please use this space to post your questions about the course readings and recorded discussions.

August 28 Recording: Part I. St. Martin's Sourcebook

This recording (http://uisapreso1.uis.edu/acmcontent/3486e096-df3f-4143-8529-1caadf0062f3/ENG378_Unspecified_2008-08-28_04-00-PM.htm ) includes a nice discussion about the difficulty in finding a specific formula to use for tutoring. We talked about the many diversity issues tutors need to address for each particular student. What other questions/comments do you have regarding this topic?