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The Center for Reading and Writing (CRW) offers one-on-one, face-to-face consultations for 69色情视频 students on\u00a0ALL academic levels<\/strong>.\u00a0 Working to support Writing- Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) initiatives, the Center promotes writing-as-a-process and encourages students to seek reader responses from our consultants.\u00a0 Additionally, reading consulting is offered on deciphering and annotating texts, as well as close, critical and analytical reading.<\/p>\n The CRW employs peer and professional consultants.\u00a0 Peer Consultants are second-, third- and fourth-year students who have been through a rigorous hiring process and trained in best practices in writing and reading tutoring. They are available to support your students in a variety of ways, in the classroom and the CRW, and remotely.\u00a0 We also employ professional ESL\/ELL Consultants who takes weekly appointments with any students who speak more than one language and would like English tutoring. The CRW depends on faculty to encourage promising students to apply for positions as Peer Consultants, so if you have any students who seem well-suited to work in the CRW, please refer them to one of our professional staff.<\/p>\n In addition to one-on-one consulting in the Center, the following services are offered:\u00a0 Class presentations on our services (aka “Road Shows”), consultant pairing, in-class peer review sessions, and out-of-class workshops (see below).<\/p>\n Center staff and Peer Consultants are available each semester to make brief presentations (10 min.) in your classes on the services available to your students.\u00a0 These presentations cover the support services in writing and reading–individual sessions and workshops–and the Center’s location and operating hours. To request the Roadshow, fill out the Faculty Workshops Request Form on this page and send to Priscilla Tovey at ptovey@ramapo.edu<\/a> at least two weeks prior to the event date.\/collapse]<\/p>\n The Consultant-Pairing program matches writing consultants with specific courses and instructors.\u00a0 These consultants will meet with you to discuss your course writing assignments, introduce themselves to your class(es), and work with your students in the Center.\u00a0 They’re also available to attend peer-review classes and facilitate short writing workshops.\u00a0 While they are not expected to serve as TAs or do the course readings, they can provide some valuable assistance to you and your students.\u00a0 For more information and\/or to request a consultant, contact Priscilla Tovey at ptovey@ramapo.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Following are some comments from instructors who have participated in the program:<\/p>\n Peer Consultants are available to join your students for peer-review classes and assist them individually and in small groups.\u00a0\u00a0This service is part of the Consultant-Pairing Program but is also available to non-participants.\u00a0\u00a0A Peer Consultant will contact you in advance of the session to discuss the assignment and the peer review process you use. Please email Priscilla Tovey in the Center for Reading and Writing to request a Peer Consultant: ptovey@ramapo.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 Requests should be sent at least three weeks prior to the\u00a0session date.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n The Center offers a variety of 30-45 minute workshops throughout the semester that take place during common hours, both remotely and in-person. Workshop topics include using style guides:\u00a0 MLA, APA, and Chicago; common sentence errors, critical-reading strategies, writing thesis papers, and evaluating resources, study skills, note-taking, and academic-success strategies. Some professors encourage students to attend by giving them course credit.\u00a0\u00a0Your ideas\/suggestions on how we can further develop and enhance the workshop program are always welcome.\u00a0 The Student Workshop Schedule is on this page.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n The Center\u00a0for Reading and Writing uses the following instructional resources in assisting students.\u00a0 Feel free to use these resources\u00a0in designing instructional plans and activities for your students.<\/p>\n The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides a comprehensive guided tour to writing papers. Below are steps of the writing process:<\/p>\n Explore steps 1 through 10 when you go to http:\/\/writingcenter.pdx.edu\/resources\/guide\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n The Online Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides thorough, easy-to-understand directions in helping writers develop an argument and thesis statement<\/strong>.\u00a0 Under “Writing the Paper,” click on “Argument” when you go to http:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/handouts\/<\/a><\/p>\n Colorado State University’s online writing resources provide an example of a student’s argumentative essay<\/strong> entitled “Landscaping that Makes Sense for the West.” The “virtual tour” of the student’s essay begins with an analysis of the student’s claim, reasoning, evidence, and counter-argument. The tour ends with an assessment of the student’s effectiveness in making the argument<\/strong> and urges the reader to arrive at a claim based on the student’s argument. The essay can be used as a demonstration of argumentative writing which in turn provides a greater understanding of thesis paper writing. Go to http:\/\/writing.colostate.edu\/guides\/reading\/toulmin\/pop2f.cfm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Prewriting tasks\u00a0are an immediate and effective way to relax, engage, and re-inform the\u00a0writer about what the\u00a0writer already knows in order to pursue the writing assignment. Pre-writing strategies serve the following purposes:<\/p>\n The University of Kansas Online Writing Center describes the following prewriting strategies and activities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Go to http:\/\/www.writing.ku.edu\/prewriting-strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n After prewriting, the writer can develop an organizational plan and tentative outline. See the University of North Carolina’s video on various outlining strategies: https:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/tips-and-tools\/outlines-demo\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Colorado State University has an online writing guide, “Planning, Drafting, and Organizing<\/strong>,” which can be used to assist a writer\u00a0in starting a draft. The guide suggests the following strategies that writers can use to develop a draft<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Go to http:\/\/writing.colostate.edu\/guides\/processes\/develop\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides strategies on<\/strong> writing introductions<\/strong> . Go to http:\/\/writingcenter.pdx.edu\/resources\/guide\/step07.php#detail1<\/a>.<\/p>\n University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill provides strategies on writing conclusions<\/strong>. Go to https:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/tips-and-tools\/conclusions\/.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n The following skills are necessary in writing a thesis paper:<\/p>\n The University of Kansas Online Writing Center provides basic directions on incorporating references and citing quotes<\/strong>. Go to http:\/\/www.writing.ku.edu\/incorporating-references<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Revision and the intricacies of re-reading and re-thinking are challenging skills\u00a0even for knowledgeable and experienced writers.<\/p>\n An overview of revision strategies<\/strong> can be found at the Harvard College Online Writing Center.\u00a0 Go to http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~wricntr\/documents\/Revising.html<\/a>.\u00a0 Harvard College also offers strategies for organizing an essay. See https:\/\/writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu\/tips-organizing-your-essay<\/a><\/p>\n These overviews can be simplified into manageable initial strategies for revision<\/strong>. For example, the student can revise by reading the draft and completing the following directions:<\/p>\n The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides comprehensive revision strategies<\/strong>. The\u00a0writer can click on the following steps of the writing process and learn more about revision strategies:<\/p>\n Click on steps 7 through 10 when you go to http:\/\/writingcenter.pdx.edu\/resources\/guide\/index.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n To develop probing questioning techniques to assist an experienced writer with higher-level revision, the writer can consult Toledo’s journal article on developing probing questioning techniques<\/strong>. To find Toledo’s article, “‘Does Your Dog Bite?’ Creating Good Questions for Online Discussions,” go to http:\/\/www.isetl.org\/ijtlhe\/pdf\/IJTLHE85.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n The Center for Reading and Writing at SUNY Adirondack offers an online Proofreading Handbook <\/em>that provides proofreading tips<\/strong> in assisting writers with low-level editing problems.<\/strong> These problems include fragments, run-ons, shifts in tense, shifts in point-of-view, plurals and possessives, subject\/verb agreement, pronoun usage, punctuation, capitalization, and homonyms.\u00a0 Click on each of the two Proofreading Handbooks when you go to libguides.sunyacc.edu\/content.php?pid=47858&sid=1008451 <\/a><\/p>\n A comprehensive online overview of higher-level proofreading and editing strategies<\/strong> can be found at the Harvard College Writing Center website.\u00a0 Click on “Editing the Essay, Part 1” OR<\/strong> “Editing the Essay, Part 2” when you go to http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k33202&pageid=icb.page143936<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n To find MLA, APA, and Chicago<\/strong> online guidelines <\/strong>for documentation, the\u00a0writer can google “Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation Online.”<\/p>\n The Turabian<\/strong> or Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide<\/strong> on the Chicago Manual of Style Online can be accessed at chicagomanualofstyle.org<\/a><\/p>\n The Center for Reading and Writing at SUNY Adirondack offers two easy-to-use online style manuals: Using MLA<\/strong><\/em> to Document Your Sources<\/em> and Using APA<\/strong> to Document Your Sources<\/em>. These online handbooksprovide tips in assisting writers with documentation. Go to libguides.sunyacc.edu\/content.php?pid=47858&sid=1008451 <\/a><\/p>\n Troy University’s Writing Center provides online Turabian or Chicago Style Guides. <\/strong>Go to http:\/\/trojan.troy.edu\/writingcenter\/assets\/documents\/handouts\/ChicagoHandout.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n LINKS TO INTERNET REFERENCES, SUCH AS DICTIONARIES, STYLE MANUALS, GRAMMAR HANDBOOKS, AND EDITING RESOURCES<\/strong><\/p>\n Purdue’s Online Writing Lab provides links to valuable writing references. The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides an online<\/strong> comprehensive guide to answering essay exams<\/strong>. Go to http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/wcweb\/handouts\/essay-exams.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n DePaul University’s Online Center for Writing-based Learning provides an overview of research-based writing, such as directions for<\/strong> writing an annotated bibliography<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Cick on “Annotated Bibliography” or other types of research-based writing when you go to http:\/\/condor.depaul.edu\/writing\/writers\/types.html<\/a>,<\/p>\n The Online Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a guide to writing abstracts<\/strong>. Go to http:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/handouts\/abstracts\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The University of Kansas Online Writing Center has links to resources in evaluating websites<\/strong>. Go to “Evaluating Web-Sites<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Purdue’s Online Writing Lab provides subject specific resources for<\/strong> writing in the disciplines<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Explore links to writing in various disciplines when you go to http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/section\/4\/<\/a><\/p>\n The Online Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides guides and resources for<\/strong> writing in the disciplines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Under “Writing for Specific Fields,” click on a discipline when you go to http:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/handouts\/<\/a>,<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n “Abstracts,” The Writing Center<\/em>.\u00a0 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 www.unc.edu\/depts\/wcweb\/handouts\/abstracts.html<\/a><\/p>\n “Argument.”\u00a0 The Writing Center<\/em>.\u00a0 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 www.unc.edu\/depts\/wcweb\/handouts\/argument.html<\/p>\n “Editing the Essay, Part 1” The Writing Center.\u00a0 <\/em>Harvard College Writing Program, 2011.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 www.fas.harvard.edu\/~wricntr\/documents\/edit1.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Editing the Essay, Part 2.” The Writing Center.\u00a0 <\/em>Harvard College Writing Program, 2011.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 www.fas.harvard.edu\/~wricntr\/documents\/edit2.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Essay Exams.” The Writing Center<\/em>.\u00a0 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 http:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/handouts\/essay-exams\/<\/a><\/p>\n “Internet References.”\u00a0 Purdue Online Writing Lab<\/em>.\u00a0 Purdue University, 2011.\u00a0 Web. 20 Jan 2011. http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/738\/01\/<\/a><\/p>\n “Prewriting Strategies.”\u00a0 KU Writing Center<\/em>.\u00a0 University of Kansas, 2011.\u00a0 Web. 19 Jan 2011.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.writing.ku.edu\/prewriting-strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Subject Specific Resources.” Purdue Online Writing Lab<\/em>.\u00a0 Purdue University, 2011.\u00a0 Web. 20 Jan 2011. owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/section\/4\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The University of Chicago.\u00a0 The Chicago Manual of Style Online, 2010..\u00a0 Web. 20 Jan 2011.\u00a0 www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/home.html<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Consultants<\/h3>\n
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