Genres+for+Writing+Assignments

Reading, listening and viewing assignments are weekly parts of TEAMS. These elucidate the upcoming topic of class.

There are weekly writing responses, also, that
 * reflect your impressions of the reading, listening, and viewing assignments
 * summarize what you are experiencing and doing in your tutoring that week.

Writing reponses may be written in any of these genres:

a letter an essay a newspaper a narrative poem a two or a three voice poem a news story for print or broadcast media a comic or graphic representation of ideas, thoughts, information

The breadth of the genres is an initiative to have you, as tutors of students and students of tutoring, explore ways to express your learning and offer the option of illustration as well as writing. Ideally, we wish you would try each of the genres once throughout the semester. Realistically, we assume you will utilize a few of these and that is our hope.

Trying something new is a risk; learning to increase one's proficiency and skills takes practice and the coaching of mentors or teachers. We will gladly be writing coaches, willing to guide the process of writing in creative ways.

Thus you can tell students that you are being tutored this semester as well as doing tutoring. Being in two roles illuminates the process in either one and actually assists the learning in both.