What To Expect in Justin Rogers-Cooper ENG 220 Teaching Writing Seminar

The Seminar in Teaching Writing combines three hours of class discussion of theory and practice of teaching writing with an hour of actual classroom experience as an observer in the writing center and as a tutor in ENG 101 or ENG099 classrooms. In class discussed numerous readings on writing theory and the practice of teaching and tutoring methodologies. My classmates and I have worked with students on a composition or basic writing class helping them practice for the CATW exam. We have observed tutors in the writing center for the first weeks of the semester and during the second half we tutored under supervision of the professor himself walking around the classroom making sure things went smoothly. This Professor is simply one of the best English professors I've ever had who is very dedicated to teaching. As a student all you have to do is to make sure you hand in your assignments, participate, attendance, blogs, essays, read the amazing readings, and quizzes and you will get a good grade. His class went further than English writing, Ive learned so much from professor Rogers-Cooper such as how important creativity is in learning. He works with you to help your writing and allows essay revisions until the last week of class.  His syllabus is very clear and tells you exactly how the class will go and what to expect. Overall, you will enjoy yourself being in such a great class as much as I did.

Third session...

I've enjoyed this tutoring session the most because of the similarities the student I tutored shared. The student was very excited to have me to critique his work and was very open to my opinions. The class (ENG 101) was assigned to write an essay that argues a work of popular culture (short story, novel, comic book, advertisement, T.V. show, movie, or song) either discriminates against a particular group of people, or that it works to raise awareness about a specific type of discrimination. The student I tutored was very prepared and showed me his 2nd draft of his paper on discrimination towards African Americans. After reading his draft aloud I was very pleased with his work, it was well written. The few issues that came to me was the in-text MLA formatting and the organization of his paper. We begin to work on the MLA formatting, I begin to scan through for the errors and showed the student the correct way to cite in a MLA format. Ive also recommended a few websites for a further reference. After working with that we begin to organize his ideas and arguments. When the time was closer for us to leave I have set a goal for him that should be done before we meet again the following week.  

2nd tutoring session!

 I feel like my second tutoring session overall was a success. I was very pleased with the outcome of this session , because I believe that the tutee and I were both prepared. I was chosen to help one student with her paper on her views and ideas on Charter Schools. I introduced myself to my tutee as I normally would and had her explain to me what her assignment was about.  She showed me the assignment prompt and rubric. Since the professor had already gave us an overview of the assignment, I already knew what to expect and what to work on as the tutor. Another reason I believe it went good was because the tutee I had was very prepared with her research/information and had a direction as to where she wanted to go with her paper which made the session go even smoother. After, I start skimming through her paper I noticed that her paper had a lot of grammatical errors but my main focus was to help her focus on the assignment, the overall structure and what her professor was asking for. Her thesis was a little unclear just needed some fixing we worked on that for about six minutes and began working on the structure of her essay. I recommended to explain what charter schools are and their background before giving her argument. Overall, it was a great turnout and I enjoyed helping every minute of it.