At the Texas A&M University Writing Center, some of the consultants are “loaned out” to other departments as writing assistants. We, as undergraduates, work one on one with a professor in many different scenarios, reading drafts, looking at grammar, style, and structure in a student’s paper for the professor, and making presentations tailored to these particular students about grammar. Starting my second semester as an Undergraduate Writing Assistant, I discovered that this class, of future Special Education teachers, was very different from my previous class, a group of senior Agronomy majors focused on soil and crop sciences. Part of my job as an assistant is to give feedback on personal reflections that each member of the class writes, and they turn in five of these reflections throughout the semester. After receiving the second group of reflections it became abundantly clear to me the students were not growing as writers. Each student seemed to be making mistakes repeatedly on
a haiku must have
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a beautiful scheme
"Haikus are easy
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Refrigerator."
I'm quoting this from
a shirt I saw on Threadless:
How do I cite it?
I can't reach the Writing Center Haiku Project via the posted link. Can you fix the problem? My peer tutors are eager to read what's on the site.
ReplyDeleteI think the Haiku project has closed for submissions. The OP presented at the recent IWCA conference. Your best bet is to contact him directly.
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