Core 101 & 301 Faculty Toolkit

Getting to Know the Center

• Myth or Fact? (Google Form Activity)
  This form is an electronic version of the Center's informational Class Visits. The activity is designed to help familiarize students with the Center's mission, staff, and services. It includes 10 statements about the Center, and students have to decide whether each statement is a myth or fact. After completing the activity, students can view their scores and an explanation for each statement's classification. Students can complete this activity on their own, or you could do it with them as a class. Consider following up on students' completion of the activity with a brief in-class discussion about what students learned and how they might use the Center this semester.
• How to Schedule a Tutorial
  This handout gives instructions for how to schedule a tutoring appointment at the Center, and it also gives some tips for strategic scheduling.
• How to Use Tutoring to Address Writing Scenarios
  This handout lists common writing scenarios and gives ideas for how students can use tutoring to assist with them.

Writing and Peer Review

• Maintaining Cohesion and Coherence Handout with related Peer Review Guide
  The handout gives an overview of cohesion and coherence. The related peer review guide helps students evaluate cohesion and coherence in a classmate's draft.
• How to Judge Writing Handout with related Peer Review Guide
  The handout helps gives an overview of higher-order and lower-order concerns in writing. The related peer review guide allows students to determine whether or not these concerns are present in a classmate's draft.
   

Writing Handouts

• Introductions

• Thesis Statements

• Essentials of Argument

• Cohesion and Coherence

• Paragraph Unity, Coherence, and Development

• How to Judge Writing

• Techniques for Persuasive Writing

• Conclusions

• Proofreading Strategies (This handout references some other handouts that have not yet been posted. They will be available shortly.)

• Editing Tips

Speaking

• Analyzing Oral Expression in Campus Speaking Events  
  This assignment could serve as a 5th Hour reflection for students who attend a lecture or similar event on campus.
• Speaking Center Resources Guide
  This assignment helps familiarize students with the speaking resources available at the Center.