A Writing Fellow or Fellow in Writing is a tutor or

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who assists with

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and

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writing instruction in specific

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or academic fields. Whereas most Writing Center tutors are generalists, ready to work with writing from any course or field, Writing Fellows are specialists. Often working within a Writing Center or Writing Across the Curriculum program, they typically provide oral and/or written feedback on papers to students in an upper-division writing class. A Writing Fellow is most often a

peer tutor Peer mentoring is a form of mentorship that usually takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee). An example would be an experienced student bein ...

; however, the term "Writing Fellow" is also sometimes used for faculty members who advise others on teaching, assigning, and responding to student writing in their specific disciplines.

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Barnard College Writing Fellows Program

Brown University Writing Fellows

MIT's Department of Biological Engineering, Writing Fellow Program

Special issue of ''Across the Disciplines'' on Rewriting Across the Curriculum: Writing Fellows as Agents of Change in WAC

The City College Writing Fellows Program

University College Falmouth Writing Fellows

* ttp://wac.colostate.edu/fellows/ Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse--List of Writing Fellows Programs Academic terminology Education and training occupations {{Edu-stub

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