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  • 1-credit writing studio as a requisite for the first-year course
  • The campus writing center is open to all students. Basic writers are generally encouraged to use it.
  • Tutoring from writing faculty in our writing studio.
  • Tutorial Service for FYC--student self-referral
  • this year we will implement an additional 1 credit course to supplement regular sections of FYC for basic learners
  • These students are encouraged to visit the Writing Center, as well as taking one semester of Critical Literacy before ENGL 101.
  • There is a two-semester stretch sequence that those identified through our placement exam as Basic Writers are required to take instead of the one-semester mainstream course. Students admitted to the university through the Academic Development Program must take the two-semester sequence.
  • The university offers an Intensive Learning Course.
  • Targeted required writing course taught in addition to regular composition course
  • We are piloting a studio addition to both courses to help basic writers on the border with our regular composition to take regular composition without BW first and to help those most in need of services get support in the BW course.
  • support cohort/program during the first year; by application
  • Supplemental instruction attached to first section of FYC
  • Students who come to us with low test scores have the opportunity to write an essay and see if they can test into our first required college composition course. If they don't test out, they enroll in ENC 1905: Improving College Level Writing Skills, which requires them to work regularly with a tutor in our Reading/Writing Center during their first semester at [the institution]..
  • Students receive additional tutoring in writing, at times, in the academic support center, separate from the writing center.
  • students participate in a for-credit book club experience.
  • Students can seek tutoring in both the Writing Center and the Learning Center. Different special programs have their own tutoring system built into their programs.
  • Tutoring in our Writing Center
  • We are piloting use of embedded undergraduate student TAs in some sections.
  • Stretch course with 1/3 of students in our standard 1st semester writing course being "basic" writers and the rest students who placed directly into standard course. The basic writing students attend an additional 50 minutes/week supplemental instruction class with the professor.
  • We provide additional support for at-risk first-year students (professional advising, required seminar for first-year students, etc.)
  • [The institution] requires all students to complete 3 writing intensive courses within the first two years, preferably. The ESOL program offers two full credit writing intensive academic courses available to all students but targeting NNSs. Teaching fellows, faculty, spouses and family members are welcome in the courses as are native English speakers. I do not discriminate! One of the courses focuses on a cross discipline curriculum, including lectures by a collective of guest professors.
  • Writing studio
  • Writing labs for FYE
  • Writing Center and Writing Center workshops and online support programs
  • We use a Writing Studio course capped at eight as a co-requisite for First Seminar.
  • We require struggling basic writers to take a 2-credit reading strategies course alongside their freshman writing course.
  • We place all students in to college level courses so we technically don't have any "Basic writers." However, we do have both stretch and studio classes that writers who need more support may be placed in to
  • We do not consider our first level of FYC "basic."
  • We have two models of support for students: a bridge program for students identified through admissions, which sometimes includes a basic writing course (based on placement) and a stand-alone developmental writing course for students who place into that class based on our placement exam process.
  • We have several versions of our first-year writing course and an extension following the course (as needed/chosen by student). With varying degrees of help from us, students select the course they believe best fits their needs. We also have an in-class "diagnostic" essay during the first week of classes that leads us to offer additional information or support to students.
  • We have elaborate Developmental reading and writing and study skill structures. They are not part of the WRTG program though we did just align system wide and now share a course prefix. Perhaps, this will bring change.
  • We have a graduation credit-conferring course that was under former timed essay placement system considered a developmental writing course but now is the first in a sequence of two students may use DSP to elect to take.
  • We have "special sections," but in name only.
  • We do not use the term "basic writers." We have a course that precedes the required GenEd composition course, but they have no special support systems in place for those sections. Those sections are slightly smaller than the GenEd composition course and they're taught by well-trained faculty, but the courses are full college-credit and we don't refer to them as remedial or "basic."
  • We do not have basic writers at this institution
  • Students are referred to a local community college for remedial work.
  • special arrangement within peer tutoring called Partners Program
  • 1. special sections of FYW are 6-credit versions of College English I 2. basic writing course through directed self-placement for provisional admits
  • Bridge learning community for conditionally-admitted freshmen
  • Contained Freshman Composition course for international students.
  • Community College Immersion Programs
  • Co-requisite first-year course (enrolled in regular 101, have additional one hour per week with instructor and 9 students from their 101).
  • co-requisite course taken with English 101 (first in first-year comp sequence)
  • Clarification: We offer peer tutoring within the basic writing course through our Embedded Writing Specialist Program. Our targeted optional writing course is a 1-credit hour course with one-on-one supplemental writing instruction taught by a member of our department.
  • Bridge program within the semester.
  • Because [the institution] is an open enrollment institution with a large adult and a large military population, many students will have met the writing requirement at a different school and transferred that credit here. So, while the basic writing course is "required," a substantial portion of students will not take it here.
  • Enrollment in Writing Studio concurrently with first year writing courses
  • Basically, those students would have to attend the Writing Center
  • Basic writers who meet certain criteria are required to take a CO-REQUISITE COURSE along with their first-semester FYC course.
  • Basic Writers and ELL students take special "plus" sections of first- and second-year writing with a required one credit-hour lab course.
  • An additional credit hour for ENGL 1101 in a lab with the professor
  • All students placed into Basic Writing take WRIT 060 and have access to the Writing Center. We've also offered some learning communities that link WRIT 060 to a Reading Skills course and/or tutoring. Starting in 2016, we've run a summer bridge program for provisionally admitted students; they take WRIT 060 and are tutored by undergraduates and the WCD. Throughout the academic year, the Center offers handouts and workshops for writers of all abilities.
  • Academic Resource Office (Learning Center)
  • Course-embedded undergraduate Writing Fellows work with all students enrolled in the course
  • Faculty tutoring in the Writing Center
  • Some summer bridge programs are available.
  • Partnered program with the Writing Center, and the peer-tutoring occurs in the studio space
  • Required writing course that also functions as an elective for other students, so the demographics are mixed.
  • required pre-req course if don't meet cutoff scores
  • required co-req supplemental instruction while in a regular FYW course
  • Required 3 credit co-requisite support course.
  • PWR provides a writing course as part of a summer bridge program called Leland Scholars. The [Writing] Center provides peer tutoring and professional tutoring from PWR lecturers as well as a range of workshops on writing issues.
  • Placement in 10-session tutorial arrangements are based on a day-one, in-class diagnostic that is authentically embedded in an initial assignment for the course.
  • Our summer bridge course, as well as targeted FYW courses are limited only to EOP students, because of funding restrictions. Ppeer tutoring is available for all students.
  • fellows attached to sections as needed
  • Our Basic Writing enrollment has dipped significantly since we went to directed self-placement.
  • Optional courses focused on one-on-one tutoring in writing center, reading, or grammar
  • Intensive writing courses in content areas
  • In some cases, like with the Student Support Services and English Language Learners, offices have developed additional strategies to support writing skills. The Trio Student Support Services supports a "writing fellow" and the International Student Services hosts a separate "English Language Center"
  • In 2017/18, the College is piloting a program to connect faculty/staff directly with students who have identified needs for tutoring support.
  • If students are considered basic writers, they typically begin at a branch campus. By state mandate, we currently do not offer a basic writing course.
  • For students with a score of 14-17 on the ACT writing section, our university requires them to take an extra section of FYW (so they take two semesters of FYW, not one). The extra course has a different number and some different requirements, but the basic goals/approach are the same. So I am hesitant to call this course a "basic writing" course, as it is not a remediated course.
  • [The system four-year] colleges are not permitted to offer bw courses nor identify basic writers.

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