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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi Abigail,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Purdue’s TA training is very similar to Penn State’s—a year-long practicum for first-year writing, then a semester long practicum focused on teaching our service course in business writing. Although we do
not have official practica for teaching online or technical writing, we have been offering an online teaching “boot-camp” for our instructors in May before they teach online (almost all of our summer offerings are online), as well as informal training for
teaching technical writing. We have a strong secondary area for our PhD students in Professional and Technical Writing, so they are also supported by that advanced coursework.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">TAs can customize their courses as they progress through the program as long as they meet course outcomes, and we also maintain an internal, crowd-sourced repository of syllabi, assignments and class activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hope this helps!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Jenny<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. Jennifer Bay</span></b><span style="color:black"> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Director of Professional Writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Purdue University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://owa.purdue.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=KgY9tnDwgUmpUmW_dbtCb2KPbixdtNAIjcoCqlcuYj4Ai593qjE7F8Dapm8YpuPDGNQJ1JiULvw.&URL=mailto%3ajbay%40purdue.edu" target="_blank">jbay@purdue.edu</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces@attw.org> on behalf of Stuart Selber <selber@psu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 9:02 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Bakke, Abigail R" <abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"attw-l@attw.org" <attw-l@attw.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ATTW-L] Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service courses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Abigail--<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All of the graduate students at Penn State begin by teaching first-year composition, and with that comes a two-semester teaching practicum.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After they have completed this requirement they can then teach our service course in technical communication, which comes with a one-semeter teaching practicum. If they want to also teach business writing they take a practicum for that
course too. The practicum meets weekly, and the students use a common syllabus, assignments, etc. They can customize their own version of the service course down the road.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also have a practicum for online teaching.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our students have 3-4 semesters of teacher training (or more) before they hit the job market.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stuart<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stuart A. Selber<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
Director of Digital Education<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Director of The Penn State Digital English Studio<br>
Department of English<br>
Penn State University<br>
University Park, PA 16802<br>
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<a href="mailto:selber@psu.edu">selber@psu.edu</a><br>
http://sites.psu.edu/selber<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.des.psu.edu">http://www.des.psu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">814-863-8032<br>
814-863-7285 (fax)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Bakke, Abigail R <<a href="mailto:abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu">abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I'm working on a proposal for training tech comm grad students to teach our tech comm service courses. As part of that process, I want to get a sense of how other programs handle this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If your program offers TAships to tech comm master's and/or PhD students, what are the qualifications or requirements for those grad students to teach tech comm? For instance, must they teach first-year comp
first?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What about teaching online - what additional qualifications/requirements are in place for TAs to teach courses online?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Abi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Abigail Bakke, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Department of English</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Minnesota State University, Mankato</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Armstrong 307H</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(507) 389-1035</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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