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Mary McDonald – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
This study is a follow-up to one on the pass rates of basic writers in a large, urban Midwestern university. Students who came for eight or more mandatory writing center tutorials for their basic writing course passed at a rate of 90% or higher each semester from 2013-2016. The current study examined their graduation rates. These students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Sean Curcio – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
Dayra Fallad Mendoza and Elizabeth Kerl's article, "Student Perceived Benefits of Embedded Online Peer Tutors," (EJ1317160) from the Spring 2021 issue, presents findings from a two-semester study of an embedded tutor program that took place during the COVID-19 crisis as the world went remote. The study aimed to determine whether students…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Online Courses, Educational Benefits, Writing Instruction
Jenny Goransson – Writing Center Journal, 2024
This article shares findings from a survey study (n = 73) focused on writing center administrator (WCA) perceptions of two phenomena we see on many secondary and postsecondary campuses in recent years: writing centers expanding to become learning centers, and writing centers consolidating or merging with other tutoring services on campus. Through…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Administrators, Organizational Change
Darowski, Emily S.; Helder, Elizabeth; Patson, Nikole D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Identifying effective and time-efficient approaches to teaching students how to write from scholarly sources benefits students and instructors. Students in a general psychology course learned a concrete method to improve this type of synthesis writing. The intervention was brief, consisting of viewing an online tutorial outside of class and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction
Parisi, Hope; Fogelman, Faith – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
Fostering a sense of belonging for community college students is a shared responsibility among all institutional areas, including academics, student services, and student life. This article presents a collaborative tutorial initiated and sustained by academics and support services that addressed the needs of students cycling through writing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Remedial Instruction, Writing Instruction
Baker, Jayne; Evans-Tokaryk, Tyler – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
Universities across Canada and elsewhere have a longstanding focus on improving students' writing skills, including for the purpose of fostering better learning. In this paper, we present findings from two sources of data--a discursive analysis and student survey--exploring the impact of writing instruction and support in the context of a required…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Methodology, Courses
Juhi Kim – Learning Assistance Review, 2022
The shift in literacy education has reshaped the perspective of writing instruction in its theory and philosophy of the writing center in the US. This study examines how the writing center tutors instruct themselves for the work of writing instruction through mock tutorials. The tutors demonstrate how they make sense of the collaborative process…
Descriptors: Universities, Tutorial Programs, Writing Instruction, Skill Centers
Jing Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Writing centers, an established, U.S.-rooted writing pedagogy, have spread across the globe, serving various populations in different countries. With Chinese universities' exciting endeavors to implement writing centers in their local contexts, little is known as to whether and how the writing center approach serves Chinese EFL students' specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Student Needs