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John Marona of Granby Named Writing Coach at Saint Michael's College

Granby Memorial High School graduate named to elite group helping peers.

John Marona of Granby named writing coach at Saint Michael's College

John Marona, son of Katherine Healy and John Marona of Granby has been named a writing coach at Saint Michael's College for the fall 2013 semester. Marona, a senior, English and secondary education double major, was selected from nominees submitted by the college faculty to be one of 29 student coaches at the liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont. Marona graduated from Granby Memorial High School before entering Saint Michael's.

The coaches are an elite group who do professional work-one-on-one with their peers at the college, diagnosing writing problems, designing strategies to help. The coaches work with clients who seek guidance regarding writing assignments for their courses. They follow the premise, "Teach the writer, not the writing," and thereby don't just correct a given paper, but work with writers, so that they will have skills to improve their writing on their own in future assignments.

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The carefully selected coaches have to pass an entry test to get into a Writing Center Internship course which they take prior to being named coaches. They are also given special instructions for working with students with learning differences and working with non-native speakers of English. International students comprise a substantial portion of the visitors to the writing center. Coaches are selected because of their language skills, patience, flexibility, good humor, and a good knowledge of written English.


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