Fall 2015 Newsletter

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California University of Pennsylvania Honors Program Fall 2015

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University Honors Program News Writing Consultants Go Cross Country

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hree Honors Program students also working as writing consultants for the Cal U Writing Center presented their scholarship at a national conference in November. Juniors Alex Dawes (anthropology) and Ashley Shilling (English) joined senior Rebecca McDonough (psychology) and Cal U Writing center director Dr. Kurt Kearcher to present “RAD Reflections: Testing Our Assumptions about the Role of Undergraduate Tutors in RAD-Based Writing Center Research” at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing held in Salt Lake City November 6-8. The writing consultants and director discussed their scholarly work in the Cal U Writing Center as it relates to RAD research, which emphasizes scholarship that is replicable, aggregable, and data supported. The conference drew hundreds of undergraduate tutors, graduate tutors, and professional writing center scholars and directors from dozens of education institutions for three days of programming devoted to writing center practices, scholarship, and administration. The students’ travel was funded in part by Top: Students conversing the Honors Program. before presentation. Left: Students listening to Dr. Kearcher present.


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