Date of Award
10-4-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Rhetoric and Writing
First Advisor
Joanne Matson
Abstract
This thesis seeks to fill the gap in writing center literature on the topic of group workshops. The researcher gathered 18 workshop agendas, 579 survey responses from workshop attendees, and 14 recordings of workshops to determine what practices workshop presenters were using and what attendees hoped to happen in future workshops. The researcher organized coded findings under the four-step scaffolding framework as described by Nordlof (2014). These findings showed that workshops could be adaptive, interactive, engaging, and applicable similarly to individual tutoring sessions. This thesis describes how the scaffolding framework can be adapted for group workshops, providing multiple methods for enacting each step of scaffolding in the group workshop setting. The two concrete outcomes from the project are an agenda guide for the creation of workshop lesson plans and an observation form for training, peer observation, and evaluation purposes, both of which are found in the appendix.
Recommended Citation
Bouza, Emily Ann, "Developing a Framework for Writing Center Workshops" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 837.
https://research.ualr.edu/etd/837
