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Note: We have completed our hiring of tutors and coordinators for the 2002-2003 academic year. If you would like to work in the Writing Lab as a graduate or undergraduate tutor, we will begin accepting applications for the 2003-2004 academic year in the spring of 2003. Information will be posted on our website about how to apply for these positions.
Graduate students hold several teaching and coordinating positions including:
Other positions are available for undergraduates:
Writing Lab Tutors are typically second to fifth year graduate students in English in all specialities. A Writing Lab position entails approximately 10 hours of tutoring each week, which constitutes half of a 1/2 time assistantship.
Purdue Writing Lab tutors teach writing in a dynamic, one-to-one collaborative setting. They work with all levels of students and deal with a variety of writing skills, contexts, audiences, and purposes, including first-year composition assignments, professional writing issues and cases, graduate dissertations and theses, and real-life writing contexts, such as resumes, cover letters, and job and internship applications. Writing Lab tutors allow students to learn for themselves; instead of teaching to students in a single-directional lecture, instructors use theoretically directed student-centered conversation that guides students to answer questions by thinking and applying their knowledge to their current writing situations. Tutoring agendas and results are typically negotiated with students, assuring that both leave the session satisfied with the result. Online tutors fulfill many of the same roles, but converse with students via e-mai.
As part of their contributions, Writing Lab instructors typically serve Pedagogical,
Administrative, and Curriculum Development roles in the lab, working in many
of the following capacities:
Pedagogy
Faculty development
Curriculum Development
The other graduate student positions in the writing lab are more administrative or developmental in nature. These positions include jobs such as
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