Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INNOVATION THROUGH ACADEMIC WRITING, Kırıkkale, Türkiye, 9 - 10 Aralık 2022, ss.3-4, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Middle East
Technical University (METU) Academic Writing Center (AWC) was established in
2002 as a unit under the School of Foreign Languages (SFL). It aims to help
members of the METU academic community to become more confident, professional and
autonomous writers by providing guidance and assistance so that they can reach
their full potential in the process of academic writing according to the
conventions of academic discourse. To this end, the center offers free
consulting services for METU graduate students and the academic staff. These
services are one-to-one tutorials where the tutors and the tutees negotiate the
meaning and work collaboratively. They work on fluency, punctuation, coherence,
organization, accuracy of language, word choice and borrowing ideas. Also,
tutees are provided with guidance with lifelong planning and revision
strategies. The purpose of these tutorials is to enable them to be more
critical of what they write and how they write and to contribute to their
improvement as writers rather than fixing the errors within a text. In this
panel, the co-coordinator of AWC will introduce the center by giving
information about its history briefly. She will also provide some details
regarding the tutorials, seminars and/or workshops offered to all graduate
students and academics and presentations made to departments. She will also
state the objectives and the philosophy of the center as well as the
responsibilities of the coordinators. In addition, she will highlight the
challenges the center has faced with the solutions offered. She will explain the
current needs, the innovative practices and changes the center has been going
through.