My transition into college life was a rocky one. I came to Chicago from a small, central Illinois Catholic high school, where I knew everyone at my…
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Category: Professional Development
Insightful summaries of tutor’s research about writing and tutoring writing performed for the Writing Center’s trimestral Professional Development workshops.
by: Isis, Meredith, and Bill As writing tutors, our job is to help everyone improve their writing skills, build their confidence, and achieve their goals in writing.…
Publication is an exciting opportunity that allows a writer to share their work with a broader audience, and also to establish themselves in their field. When I…
There are countless rewards involved with being an employee at DePaul’s Writing Center. Interestingly, my roommate articulated and revealed one of these improvements to me. She said…
The personal statement can be a scary genre. Many graduate schools require a personal statement, but each program has differing expectations. This blog post is a resource…
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Being Late is NOT Glam
I like to blame my chronic lateness on “Gay Time,” or as the professors at JaCob University would define it, the extra ten or fifteen minutes that…
The Chicago Literacy Alliance, a non-profit organization located in the West Loop, seeks to meet the literacy needs of people all over the city of Chicago. Comprised…
Summers without courses seem to lose their structure entirely for me, and, when I heard the news of classes going online this spring, I immediately began anticipating…
Why Cover Letters and Resumes? The topic that I chose for my WRD 395 presentation is how to tutor career writing, more specifically cover letters and resumes.…
Making a content and style guide that is both rhetorically effective while also comprehensive can be a challenge, namely because picking a place to start isn’t as…