Honors Writing Fellows are available in Spring and Fall 2023 to help CLAS instructors who require at least two major writing assignments in courses with 15 to 45 undergraduates.

Writing Fellows are specially selected Honors undergraduate students who have been trained in peer tutoring of writing across the curriculum. They work closely with instructors to learn their goals for the course and the purpose of each of the two major writing assignments.

• Each Writing Fellow works with about 7-14 students in an instructor’s class. Usually fellows respond to drafts of the first paper around midterm and drafts of the second paper after midterm.
• The first week of the drafting process, Fellows read drafts carefully, making marginal comments about assignment fulfillment issues and providing suggestions for improvement.
  • They then write each student a commenting letter addressing three or four areas in which the student can revise their draft to better address the assignment prompt.
  • For example, they may advise students how to strengthen the thesis, how to support the argument more strongly, and how to use sources more effectively.
• The next week they return the drafts and letters to the students and hold individual conferences with them. They may use the conference to start the revision process. For example, Fellow and student may revise the paper’s thesis together.

If you are interested in participating in the Honors Writing Fellows Program and working with fellows, please contact Carol Severino, Professor of Rhetoric. Visit https://writingcenter.uiowa.edu/writing-fellows for more information. Instructors of approved Diversity and Inclusion GE CLAS Core courses with enrollments of 15 to 45 undergraduates are particularly welcome.