Iris Chapman, Assistant Professor - English Writing Assesment

Writing Contexts As first-year writing coordinator, I wanted to link with agencies in the community that are willing to form collaborative partnerships in experiential writing situations. Situating students in real writing contexts provides one of the best ways to develop better writers, and real situations give students real audiences and purposes, working collaborative with real people. While serving the community in any capacity is noble, we want our first-year writers to serve in writing situations. The collaborative project I propose below is one of the ways that these joint writing efforts can be realized: Because of bad weather, we had difficulty getting started during the first two weeks of the semester getting going, but we are underway. My students meet weekly with a senior English class at Cummings High School. Students are bussed in to the Belk library every week at 9:20 and leave around 11:00. My students serve as advisors in writing and have been paired with a student(s) from Cumming, based on my students' interests—where applicable. Thus far my students have assisted with locating print & non print material, taking notes, thinking of ideas. Next week they will be sounding boards to listen to their advisees draft. Comments from the teacher have been overwhelmingly appreciative. For me service learning is best when it reinforces my teaching, so I will be following closely what my students say; thus far students seem to be enjoying the experience. Some of the comments are as follows: Helping Kevin will help me become better acquainted with Elon’s library In College Writing I’m talking about evidence and that’s exactly what DJ and I are gathering right now. Starting from the beginning refreshes my mind on the basics of research It’s nice when you learn something from someone’s who’s been there and done that I had a lot of research and preparation to do before my papers actually materialized into something Working with Keisha shows how far I have come in my writing development; I’m not only capable of writing, but teaching and helping someone else to write!! It helps me review the proper procedure for research. I wish I had had someone to help me write when I was in AP World Lit.

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