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Peer Writing Tutoring

Tutoring and Stage Directing

Preface I do not tend to direct particularly literary work. I think people often conflate Writing Center practices with editing plays. While I am a dramaturg and…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Professional Development

Tutoring, Mentoring, and Teaching. What’s the Difference?

I’ve been a Writing Center peer tutor since my sophomore year at DePaul, and I can easily say that working here has been one of the most…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

The Value of Collaboration and Curiosity

In high school, I found myself wading through competition that I felt was mostly needless (at least for my mentality as a 17-year-old in the middle of…

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Accessibility Peer Writing Tutoring

Tutoring With Poor Auditory Processing

What happens when the writer reads out loud? I figured out that I struggled to hang on to information I heard rather than read sometime sophomore year…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Tutoring and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy

I was introduced to adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy in one of my dramaturgy classes, though the book never says anything about theatre. The book– which…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Theatre Performance and Peer Tutoring

If you think that all of the skills we’ve learned while tutoring at the Writing Center will be useless after we graduate, think again. In my early…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Hands-On Tutoring

One of our mottos at the UCWbL is to meet writers where they are. This can mean where writers are in the writing process, the writing experience…

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Here We Go Again: Impostor Syndrome and In-Person Work

My first ever appointment at the Writing Center was with a woman in her 30’s. Through the office’s online synchronous portal, we worked on an essay to…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Joint Tutor Interview: Brooks H. and Meghan K.

This interview was recorded via Zoom on Friday, April 29th, between DePaul University’s writing tutor Brooks H. and Wheaton College’s writing consultant Meghan K. The current blog editor…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

How Space Talks

Most—if not all—of us tutors are used to rhetorical analyses: looking not so much at what an author is saying, but rather how they say it. However, what we’re less used…