by Al Byrnes As I have worked as a writing coach for the Writing Intensive Program (WIP) at the University of Georgia, I have learned the importance of supporting students. Through facilitating meaningful opportunities for practice and through explicitly teaching writing as a process, I have helped students develop their writing skills. The training I…
by Melissa Gomes I have had the rare privilege of getting to both take the writing-intensive class in linguistics as an undergraduate student and now assist teaching the same course as a graduate student. My first experience with the Writing Intensive Program (WIP) was three years ago as an undergraduate linguistics major taking LING 3150:…
by Austin Becker As the semester comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the experiences I’ve had over the past few months in the WIP Program. I realize that I have come a long way in this program, but so have some of the students in the two classes that I served as a…
by Evelyn Saavedra Autry Consider a graded paper covered in red marks, hard-to-read comments, squiggly lines, and cross-outs. What does it tell you about the grader? What does it represent to the student? What are the benefits for both the student and the teacher? I must confess, I am responsible for this sort of annihilation…