Tutors can give writers edge
■The Kidd Tutorial
program offers a quality
graduate writing education
for students at the University
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Creative Writing Program’s
unique undergraduate -tutorial
program is looking for talented
young writers who are self moti
vated and willing to work hard.
And in hopes of gathering more
interest in the Kidd Tutorial Pro
gram, a year-long class designed
to articulate young writers’ skills,
the application deadline has been
extended to 5 p.m. Friday.
The tutorial program, made
possible by an endowment from
Walter and Nancy Kidd, was es
tablished in 1991 to provide un
dergraduate students with a simi
lar type of training that graduate
students receive.
Creative writing administrator
and instructor Debra Gwartney
said the Kidd program is extreme
ly valuable and gives undergrad
uate students a boost when they
enroll in higher level courses.
“They have an edge that I no
tice right away,” she said. “It’s just
a neat program. It’s very rare to
take care of undergraduates that
way.”
Kidd head tutor Josh Morse
said the tutorial is a great stepping
stone for those interested in get
ting into the Master of Fine Arts
graduate program, which is
known nationally in the field.
“It’s an awesome program,”
said Morse, an MFA graduate stu
dent who is a former Kidd partici
pant. “It helps you develop your
own vision.”
Participation in the Kidd pro
gram also enhances students’
chances of furthering their educa
tion on a higher level, Kidd direc
tor Pimone Triplett said.
“A lot of students do writing
that gets them into the top writing
schools,” Triplett said.
The small class sizes — ranging
from four to six students — al
lows tutors to cater to the individ
ual needs of the young writers.
Ha lot of students do
writing that gets them
into the top writing
schools.
Pimone Triplett
Kidd director
The Kidd classes serve as forums
where students can feel comfort
able about discussing their work
and are able to provide helpful
feedback, Morse said.
“Creative writers thrive to es
tablish trust with colleagues,”
Morse said. “And Kidd is perfect
for that.”
Triplett said student. cama
raderie is essential to the pro
gram.
“The students really get to
know each other well,” Triplett
said. “They are good at criticizing
each other’s work ... that kind of
community is rare.”
While the tutorial program is a
great opportunity for ambitious
writers, Morse said it is not for
everyone. Only those who are tru
ly self-motivated and able to
make a full commitment are go
Kidd Program's
deadline extended
The deadline to apply for the Kidd
Tutorial Program, designed to en
hance ambitious writer’s skills, has
been extended to 5 p.m. Friday.
Applications can be picked up at
144 Columbia Hall or downloaded
from the Web at darkwing.
uoregon.edu/~crwrweb.
ing to succeed in the program, he
said.
“We’re looking for students
who aren’t afraid to work,” Morse
said.
The Creative Writing Program
offers six four-credit classes for
Kidd participants, who are tu
tored by graduate students. One
of the main focuses of the classes
is the development of individual
projects, where students study lit
erary works and produce a collec
tion of writings based on their
studying.
Triplett said the most impor
tant aspect of Kidd is that it is a
combination of reading a wide
range of books and writing fiction
and poetry.
“Students are taught to read as
writers, which is very important
for undergraduate studies,”
Triplett said.
The Kidd program enables stu
dents to “gain a kind of confi
dence that is so apparent in the
classroom,” Gwartney said.
“They are so obviously attuned to
the critical process and very in
structed readers. Sometimes they
point out things and I think, ‘Oh
my gosh, why didn’t I think of
that?’”
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