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CAPI Writing Consultant Description
The CAPI grant is targeted at high school students interested in
entering a college or university upon high school graduation. The overall
goal of the CAPI grant is to reduce the need for remediation in math and
English.
The CAPI writing consultant is primarily responsible for individual and
small group consulting in a high school classroom and online. In other
words, as a writing consultant you may be hired to provide face-to-face
and/or online consulting. When working in a classroom and online, you are
responsible for maintaining a cordial and supportive relationship with the
classroom instructor with whom you are working. At all times, you are
expected to project a professional manner and appearance and to comply
with the respective high school’s regulations.
In working with individual students or groups, you will assist each
student in improving reading and writing skills. Your primary
responsibility as a consultant is providing useful feedback to writers
about their writing. Your goal is to help high school students develop
their critical reading and writing skills. As a consultant you must be
able to respond to the varied learning styles and needs of the students by
individualizing instruction and providing multiple approaches within a
variety of instructional contexts. Assistance to the consultant in
developing and refining your consulting techniques is provided through our
mandatory weekly consultant meetings.
The CAPI consultant must be able to address topics such as the
following:
- Asking critical questions of texts
- Decoding writing prompts
- Crafting thesis statements
- Identifying appropriate support
- Creating well-supported paragraphs that extend a project’s thesis
- Writing thesis-driven essays
- Revising texts at global and surface levels
- Using MLA format
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