Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nine tutors and section leaders were chosen last year to participate in the Graduate Writing Fellows program begun this semester. The fellows, who receive a minimal stipend, were required to attend a two-day workshop in September that focused on teaching writing technique and giving helpful feedback. Last week, participants held the first in a series of follow-up meetings designed to follow the progress each tutor is making...
Teaching fellows in the experimental program said they emphasize revision. Many said they have students outline their work after it is completed to find organizational faults, while others rely on in-class writing exercises. Braverman said that since the one course he was a section leader for had no paper, he would spend time in section teaching students how to write for exams...
...Fang Chien, who teaches a section of Historical Study A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asia: Japan," said she stressed the opportunity for peer review at the WritingCenter. Chien said she is "hoping to get morethought, more thinking ahead, [and] more planningabout the argument" in her student's papers...
...fired." Don't develop a crush on your art section leader...
Students and section leaders said at the time that the controversy centered on Thernstrom's discussions of slavery, recent Black history, the removal of Native Americans to reservations and the immigration of Hispanics and Asians...