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Shawna Shapiro–Tutors as Educators–Not Editors

Posted in ESL Optional Training PWT
October 23rd, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

We had a great session with Shawna Shapiro last Thursday.  Thanks to the peer writing tutors and the foreign language tutors who attended and helped make it a success!  For those of you who could not make the session, I’m uploading Shawna’s handout from the session: PWT_Workshop_Oct22

Ms. Shapiro will be speaking this week at the Robert A. Jones ‘59 House. Trained PWTs can use this talk as one makeup session.

Applied Linguistics 101:

Language Matters in the Worlds of Education, Geopolitics, and Social Justice
by Shawna Shapiro
Writing Program

4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
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Session #4—Writing and Speaking Across the Disciplines

Posted in ESL Multililingual Students Optional Training Oral Presentations PWT RefWorks Special Events Training Training F09 WID
October 6th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

Session #4—Writing and Speaking Across the Disciplines
(Thursday, October 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m., CTLR Library 225)

  • Tell us the writing expectations and guidelines of your major.
  • Getting comfortable giving oral presentations.

Writing in the Disciplines Handout: 09FallWID

Useful Oral Presentation Handouts

Added on October 15: Yonna McShane has a great Oral Presentation Rubric that she uses with her class and in her ACE training. I’m uploading it for you here to work with your students: Oral Presentation Yonna’s Rubric

The next makeup session will take place after the break.

No Drop in tutoring on Sunday, October 11 or on Monday, October 12.

Drop in Tutoring will resume on Tuesday, October 13th 7:30-midnight in CTLR.

Upcoming special sessions:

  1. Working with Multilingual students: Thursday, October 22 4:30-5:30, CTLR
  2. RefWorks Workshops: Monday, October 19 at 7:00 PM, Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 PM
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Let Us Help You Get a Job: Writing Cover Letters

Posted in CSO Optional Training PWT cso cover letter
April 8th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

We now have a date for the Workshop on Writing Cover Letters: Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in CTLR.
Get prepared to prepare other students, and pick up some helpful tips of your own along the way!

  • Help students target their audience
  • Fine-tune snapshots of academic, work, volunteer, and extracurricular experiences to appeal to internship sponsors, employers, and networking contacts
  • Distinguish “talking points” during an interview for both the student and the interviewer
  • Help students organize their thinking about how background and skills may relate to an internship, job, or graduate school choice

For more information, visit the Career Services Office, or go online at www.middlebury.edu/cso

Tuesday, April 28th
CTLR Library 225
4:30- 5:30 p.m.

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Tutoring HARC papers

Posted in HARC New Tutors Optional Training PWT S09 Special Events
April 5th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

This Thursday, senior History of Art and Architecture Major Nicole Conti shows us how to tutor HARC papers:

Thursday, April 9, 4:30-5:30 in CTLR (Lib 225).

Trained tutors may use this as one optional training session. Both trained and new tutors invited.

Update: Thanks to Nicole for an animated and informative presentation. If you were not able to join us, you can download two of the handouts from the presentation here:

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Tutoring Creative Writing

Posted in Creative Writing Optional Training S09 Special Events Trained Tutors Training
March 26th, 2009 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

Update: Thanks to Danny, Jennifer, and Catharine for making this session a success!

We had a wonderful turnout, and we’ll upload a helpful handout from this session soon.

You asked for this session, and now it’s here for Trained Peer Writing Tutors!

Optional Session for Trained Peer Writing Tutors.

Date and time: Wednesday, April 1, 4:30-5:30 PM
Location: CTLR, Library 225

Panelists:
Middlebury College Faculty:  Catharine Wright & Jennifer Bates have taught Creative Writing Courses at Middlebury and are published authors.
Middlebury Senior: Danny Roberts has taken Creative Writing Courses and has written columns for the Middlebury College Campus.

The panel will divulge tips for tutoring creative writing assignments and provide you with  hands-on practice in tutoring creative writing.

This is a paid session that makes up for one training session .

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Jeff’s Review of Resume and Cover Letter Workshop

Posted in Optional Training Special Events cso cover letter
February 26th, 2006 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

I found the event worthwhile. They emphasized the importance of tailoring your resume for each specific job, and completely rewriting your cover letter for each as well. As peer tutors, there are a few specific things we can look for in other students’ cover letters and resumes. For a resume, we can help the student use provocative action verb to describe their accomplishments, and to thin down their accomplishment to what truly are their accomplishments, because in most resumes, less is more. For cover letters, it is important to make sure the student is not using a template, (especially not one with the names of employers from other firms). We should also help them create a cover letter that is short, concise, and contains only relevant
information.
–Jeffery Boyd

Peer Writing Tutors have two more chances to attend this workshop. Click below to see dates and to learn more.
–Mary Ellen Bertolini

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