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Thank you for your interest in the Writing Fellows/WID Program here at MHU! The following information and definitions will be helpful to you in understanding the program and how it functions.
Writing Fellow: A carefully selected, highly trained, and deeply committed MHU student who works as a peer writing tutor in identified WID classes across campus. A Writing Fellow holds a professional position and is paid a stipend for his or her work as a peer writing tutor working in the classroom.
WID: Writing in the Disciplines—courses designed to emphasize “writing to learn” and “learning to write” in particular disciplines. WID courses provide faculty an opportunity to creatively re-approach their courses with an added emphasis on writing, no matter what discipline the WID course is part of. As part of all WID courses, Writing Fellows are assigned to assist in supporting the writing component of the course. Writing Fellows provide support to faculty as well as to students in the class.
In general, a WID course using Writing Fellows will be a course constructed with a heavy emphasis on writing. Each WID identified course will be assigned a Writing Fellow, who is responsible for working with 12-15 students (if the course is larger, two Writing Fellows will be assigned) on two major writing assignments that the participating faculty member has integrated into the course. Two weeks prior to each due date, the Fellow will collect papers, write comments intended to help students with revision, and conference with each student. The professor will then receive both drafts—the one with comments and the revision—on the designated due date. Rationale: When students have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a writing professional and have built-in writing revision requirements, writing improves, understanding of course content improves, and professor receives writing assignments that are of a higher quality than assignments might otherwise be not having gone through the conferencing-revision process.
Both WID Faculty and Writing Fellows are compensated for their participation in the program.