Final Project Research

For my final project, I research "Writing Center Satellite Sites".  This was very useful in coming up with how the satellite sites could be organized.  There would be two sites with days and hours that do not overlap so that the Writing Center would not be burdened by excessive scheduling of writing consultants.  Although most of the schools that have satellite writing centers are big state schools, I think that the students in the Business School and who spend the majority of their day in Gottwald performing labs and homework would be more inclined to use the Writing Center if it was closer to where the majority of their classes are held.  Also, on the SUNY website I found a list of suggested writings that students could bring in.  This was a great source for me to include in my brochure because it provide great suggestions of what students at Richmond could bring to the Writing Center.  I also added Digital Story Narratives because digital stories are becoming more and more popular on campus.

Final Writing Center Shadowing

At my final shadowing session at the Writing Center, a girl came in with her essay that related ageism in the book that was read in class with ageism in society today.  The essay was completed, but needed some final edits and clarification.  The writing fellow and I read the essay to ourselves, and she made notes in pencil as she read through.  Once we had completed reading, we went through areas where clarification of how her idea related to her thesis was needed.  In this situation, I would have read the paper aloud because it seemed as though the student was not involved for the first part of the consultation.  Also, the writing fellow missed typos such as "word" instead of "world" when she was reading to herself and she did not mark.  The student then asked if her thesis was clear enough because she knows that in the past her professor has strongly emphasized the thesis in her students' papers.  Together, we were able to create a thesis statement that best represented the argument of her paper.