Peer writing tutors program
 LUMES peer writing tutor session in progress, August 2014.
Since 2014, I've collaborated with Ladaea Rylander of the Lund University Academic Support Centre to design and develop a peer writing tutors program in my Earth Systems Science course in the LUMES program.
Ladaea trains second year LUMES students to give feedback and run tutoring sessions for the incoming students to give them experience and feedback in academic writing, as well as the unique LUME culture. We've continued this successful program each fall since. |
4 minute video describing the peer writing tutor program from the perspective of students, teachers, and tutors
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Book chapter
Along with one of the first peer tutors, Abi Brady, Ladaea and I have written up our experiences and reflections from this project in a book chapter, "Peer Writing Tutors Help International, Interdisciplinary Students to Stake their Claim."
The full book, Diversity in Education: Crossing cultural, disciplinary and professional divides, is available here.
The full book, Diversity in Education: Crossing cultural, disciplinary and professional divides, is available here.
Appendix: Peer writing tutor program materials
Resources we used for designing and running this project are available here as Appendices for the book chapter. Please feel free to use and adapt them in your own teaching.
- Project surveys for students before and after participating, and for peer writing tutors
- Materials from the professor for students: Full assignment instructions, including feedback forms; rubric for assessing essay.
- Materials from the professor for writing tutors: Tutor expectations including hours and compensation; guide for running in-person feedback sessions.
- Writing consultant materials for peer tutors: guidelines for constructive feedback during the writing process, feedback session guide and templates for responding to student writing, Thoughts on Academic Writing, and academic writing resources.
- Plagiarism resources - "What it takes to avoid plagiarism" lecture by Ladaea Rylander; "Writing to make a difference- while staying out of trouble" lecture and exercises by Kim Nicholas.