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What
Other Writing-Related Resources Are Available at Kingsborough?
KCC
has a variety of writing-related services available for faculty
and students to help support writing at the college. These include:
- The
Reading and Writing Center (L219) is the developmental
support service of the English Department. As part of the developmental
course requirements, the Center provides tutors who facilitate
small group, or individual study for students enrolled in remedial
English and ESL courses. The Center also provides individual tutoring
in reading and writing on a walk-in and weekly/semester basis,
and offers workshops to prepare students who have failed CUNY
Reading and Writing assessment tests. Individual and workshop
assistance with the CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE) is also
available. The Assignment Lab (AL) operates out of the Reading
and Writing Center as well (see section entitled “The Writing
Fellows” for further details).
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The Career Writing Program (L107) is an extension
of the Reading and Writing Center that offers individual assistance
with assignments for career-related courses and on-the-job writing
tasks.
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The Tutorial Services Department (L605) offers
content-related tutoring (by peer tutors in small groups) for
students experiencing difficulty with their courses.
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The
Immersion Program (D106) provides courses during
the winter module for currently enrolled KCC students, and in
the summer module, for both currently enrolled and incoming students,
who need developmental courses. The program also sponsors the
Tutors-in-the-Classroom Program which provides Reading and Writing
Center tutors who work with students on their reading and writing
skills.
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Linked Courses involve KCC faculty who link disciplinary
courses with developmental reading and writing courses. A student
enrolling in one of these courses must enroll in the other. Faculty
can collaborate to develop a curriculum that includes more reading
and writing. Tutors are also assigned to linked courses. The KCC
Intensive ESL Program, a twenty-hour-per-week course, is required
of all incoming ESL students. Other linked courses include Psychology
11, Sociology 31, History 21 and HPE 12.
WAC-Related Resources and Links
On
the Web:
The
internet is full of resources on Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (as
well as related programs such as Critical-Thinking-Across-the-Curriculum
and Communication-Across-the-Curriculum). Some sites also have links
to discipline-specific WAC programs. Here are some of the more useful
sites:
CUNY-Based
Websites:
-
writesite.cuny.edu
-- This is CUNY’s own Online Writing Lab (OWL); it offers
a wide variety of interactive tasks to help students with writing,
both in terms of grammar and content.
- www.kbcc.cuny.edu/library
-- This is a useful KCC site about how to locate resources through
the internet.
Outside CUNY:
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