COURSE TITLE:             The Writing Coach
LEVEL:                            10th-12th Grade
LENGTH/CREDITS:       1 trimester and .5 Credit, English or Elective (whichever needed)
PREREQUISITES:           By teacher/counselor recommendation and application

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This elective course invites students to explore writing as a process – and particularly, a social process.  Through this course, students will become expert Writing Coaches for their peers and will, as part of the requirements of the course, commit approximately two hours per week outside of class to coaching at the NLCP Writing Center.  In addition to learning how to be valuable outside readers to their peers, students in this course will develop new strategies for writing at all stages of the process, hone their mechanical skills, learn about writing in different genres and academic writing across the disciplines, and build confidence in themselves as writers and perceptive readers/editors.  The students in this course will also work as a team to develop the NLCP Writing Center and plan for its future, including designing a publicity strategy, creating handouts for students about writing, and building connections with the larger Writing Center community.