| WriterAide |
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Craft. |
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Convey. |
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Communicate. |
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| WriterAide is a writing-assistance service that supplements your on-campus writing center or writing-lab. Improving students' writing, by its very nature, is a laborious process of having students write multiple drafts based on extensive feedback. At a time when employers are appealing for graduates to have better written communication skills, institutions need to enhance their capacity to work with students. Our TAs have at least a Masters degree (and sometimes a PhD) in English Language (or Literature) and are further oriented in the art of providing rich feedback. |
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| WriterAide has been specially designed by faculty members with distinctive features: |
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- 24x7, online tutorial support for writing projects in any academic discipline
- rich feedback is embedded into student submissions (see Assess+ for details)
- experts offer tips, guidance, strategies, but never spoon-feed students!
- feedback on grammar, rhetoric and composition (expository vs narrative)
- facilitate organization of thought and ideas; encourage higher-order thinking
- feedback tailored to genre of writing ¾ (a) academic writing, (b) business, professional and technical communication and (c) creative writing
- feedback can be based on rubrics provided by instructors or that we develop
- special assistance to ELL students, given their unique needs
- retain all drafts of written work in an e-portfolio (permission-based viewing)
- analysis of student-usage by discipline, course, demographic identifiers
- perfect for online programs to make up for the lack of face-to-face feedback
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| MyMathAide |
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Compute. |
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Correlate. |
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Convince. |
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| MyMathAide is a virtual Math-assistance service that supplements your on-campus Math Center, Math-Lab or serves as a critical resource for online programs. |
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| MyMathAide was specially-designed by faculty members with distinctive features: |
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- (shares many of the features outlined above)
- 24x7, online tutorial support for Math, including other disciplines using Math concepts
- basic and intermediate Math (Algebra, Geometry, Calculus) and Statistics
- developmental feedback and supplemental tutoring, but never actually doing the work
- help students understand fundamentals (method, applying formulae etc)
- feedback not only points out mistakes, but also points out error patterns, if any
- analysis of student-usage by discipline, course, demographic identifiers
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| How it works |
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| WriterAide and MyMathAide can be structured in a variety of formats: |
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- supplement on-campus center whose tutors focus on knottier/ motivation-related issues
- as the critical tutorial service for online programs, given the lack of face-to-face feedback
- to supplement feedback provided by the instructor in regular classes
- as a special-tutorial service for students who need additional assistance
- "progress report" can be set up, with regular or occasional updates sent to instructors
- institution pays only for what its students use (rather than a fixed-fee commitment)
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