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Hanna German
  • Classics and History
  • Class of 2013
  • Woodbridge, CT

Hanna German of Woodbridge named a writing coach at Saint Michael's College

2012 Oct 29

Hanna German, daughter of Bruce and Helen German of Woodbridge, has been named a writing coach at Saint Michael's College for the fall 2012 semester. German, a senior , classics and history double major, was selected from nominees submitted by the college faculty to be one of 27 student coaches at the liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont. German graduated from Amity Regional 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.

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.

The Writing Center is directed by Timothy Mackin, who has a Ph.D. in English, from Johns Hopkins University, with specialization in American and British modernism. He is former Associate Editor of English Literary History and served as Director of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Center.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review, 2013 as one of the nation's Best 377 Colleges, and included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings.