Some instructors build time into their course syllabus for drafting and revising projects and require all students in their course to work with the peer writing tutors in the Writing Fellow program. Writing Fellows meet with instructors periodically throughout the quarter to best help students succeed in particular assignments and focus on specific writing goals.
Writing Fellows serve as authentic, interested readers for writers and help writers find and engage in writing processes that allow them to produce thoughtful final drafts. The Writing Fellows assigned to each course are a cohort, and each cohort works closely with their course instructor to help writers with any genre of writing in any course across DePaul University.
The Writing Fellows program manifests our core belief that "all writers, no matter how accomplished, can improve their writing by sharing their work in progress and revising based on constructive criticism." To that end, Writing Fellows work to share the benefits of revision-oriented feedback in the writing process.
Building on the belief that all writers, regardless of experience or skill level, can benefit from revising their work, the Writing Fellows program helps instructors incorporate peer revision into coursework and class expectations. Tutors give feedback to students in cohorts ranging from LSP 100 classes to Doctoral-Level courses. All tutors are fully capable of giving feedback to any writer!
A cohort consists of tutors that are working together as writing fellows on a class. There can be anywhere from 2-10 tutors in a cohort.
That’s you! A writing fellow is just the name we use to refer to the tutors that are assigned to a class in this program
Each assignment you give feedback on will either be a written feedback or a Zoom appointment. Sometimes in a quarter, you will conduct appointments using both modalities. We use Zoom instead of WConline for writing fellows because most students and professors are already familiar with this software and know how to use it. Each assignment can have up to 2 rounds of feedback, meaning courses with 2 assignments can potentially call for a total of four rounds of feedback. However, many cohorts will have only two rounds for feedback. The number of rounds for each assignment will be negotiated with the instructor and the writing fellows coordinator
The point of contact is the person who organizes your cohort - they will be either one of the Writing Fellows Student Managers or the Coordinator. These folks set up the Slack channel, lead meetings, communicate with the professor and the students as well as sign up students for Zoom appointments. This is the person you should go to with any writing fellows questions you may have throughout the quarter. They should introduce themselves at the beginning of the quarter when your fellowing begins (this could be anywhere from week 2 to week 6 of the quarter)
These are the people who help run the writing fellows program with the writing fellow coordinator and can be your point of contact. To view who these people are, visit the notion handbook page on Writing Fellows.