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domes9c  students  

internat'l  students  

What  online  resources  are  available  for  students?  

Developing  global-­‐ready  consultants  Mul9lingual  and  TESOL-­‐trained  wri9ng  consultants  serve  student  writers  and  educate  their  colleagues  toward  a  global-­‐ready  wri9ng  center.    All  wri9ng  consultants  par9cipate  in  ongoing  professional  development,  responding  to  the  field’s  call  for  greater  aOen9on  to  equity:  “Wri9ng  center  staff  educa9on  must  be  a  primary  focus  of  efforts  to  affirm  in  our  prac9ce  the  reality  and  value  of  linguis9c  diversity  in  our  centers.”*    *Sarah  Blazer,  “Twenty-­‐first  Century  Wri9ng  Center  Staff  Educa9on:  Teaching  and  Learning  towards  Inclusive  and  Produc9ve  Everyday  Prac9ce.”  Wri$ng  Center  Journal  (Fall/Winter  2015).  

Mul9lingual  Learner  Specialist  professional  consultants    

TESOL-­‐trained  student  consultants  

Who  works  at  Student  Wri/ng  Support?  

wri9ng.umn.edu/sws    •  Voices of Minnesota’s Multilingual Writers

•  Learner’s dictionaries

•  Articles tutorial: using a, an, the or ø with common nouns

•  Google It Up! A Tutorial on Selecting Just the Right Phrase

•  Links to other academic resources at U of MN and on the web

Interna9onal    &  mul9lingual  student  consultants  

The  Center  for  Wri/ng’s  support  for  interna/onal  and  mul/lingual  writers