Job: Graduate Student Instructor - Graduate Writing Clinic Consultant (Fall 2019)

Deadline: May 9, 2019

Course Description

GSI position to serve as a consultant in ELI’s Graduate Writing Clinic.  A 25% appointment is available for both Fall and Winter terms of the 2019-2020 academic year. Continuing appointments for future academic years are available for consultants with satisfactory job performance.

Graduate Writing Clinic Consultants offer international graduate students and visiting scholars at the University of Michigan support in developing their written work, including course papers, dissertation chapters, and journal articles. This support is provided in the form of individual appointments that are scheduled through an online sign-up system. Writing Clinic Consultants’ hours are determined by the instructional fraction according to the GEO contract guidelines. This position qualifies for health benefits and a 100% tuition waiver.

Responsibilities

The purpose of Writing Clinic sessions is to work on organization, flow of ideas, and other macro writing issues, and to help participants identify and learn to self-correct their own texts. Un-booked Clinic time is used for walk-in appointments, to assist with program maintenance duties, and to engage in additional professional development.

A Writing Clinic Consultant on a 25% appointment is required to be on-site at the ELI for a minimum of 12.5 hours per week throughout the Fall and Winter terms. Approximately 10 hours per week is spent in 45-minute Clinic appointments meeting with individual graduate students to discuss their writing. The remaining 2.5 hours per week is spent in structured training and professional development activities under the direction of a Writing Clinic Faculty Mentor.

Writing Clinic Consultants maintain a weekly schedule which includes appointments on at least three days per week agreed upon in consultation with the Faculty Mentor for posting via an online sign-up system, to be adjusted as necessary to meet student demand. Consultants are also responsible for completing a Client Report form after each session. Newly-hired Consultants participate in pre-service training/orientation meetings and weekly mentoring and feedback sessions with the Writing Clinic Faculty Mentor.

Required Qualifications

Writing Clinic consultants must be currently enrolled in a University of Michigan graduate program and must either: 1. Have completed at least one year of their graduate program when they begin work;  2. Possess an advanced degree from a peer institution. Excellent oral and written communication skills, familiarity with the conventions of graduate academic writing, and an ability to work independently are also required.

Desired Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include: 1. Prior experience working with the writing of graduate students, particularly international students, in an academic context; 2. Prior experience teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language at the university/graduate level; 3. An advanced degree in Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Composition/Rhetoric or related field.

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