Accommodation Station
Overview Our project focused on the ideas of accommodations within the Writing Center, and how they can be implemented to better experiences for both writers and tutors. We delved…
Rethinking Reading Aloud: Exploring the Point-Predict Method
When we think about reading aloud in writing center sessions, the conversation often centers on who should do the reading: the writer or the tutor. This seemingly straightforward choice…
Providing Feedback on Creative Writing
Through our research on Writing Center pedagogy and creative writing tutoring, we established five main focuses that can help prepare and enable tutors to provide the best possible feedback. Creative writing tutoring stems from…
Multi, Multi, & Multi: Multimodality’s Place in the Writing Center
In my first year of being a Writing Center tutor, I can now proudly say I haven’t had a single synchronous appointment about writing. Those who know me have heard me say (many times)…
Proposing a Hierarchy of Concerns for Stories
Introduction As someone who loves to read and write stories, I know firsthand how subjective they can be. Personal preference alone can decide whether a reader praises a story as the best thing that’s…
The More You Grow: Cultivating a Growth Mindset Within the Writing Center
“I’m not a writer. I’ve never been all that great at writing and I probably never will be.” I’ve heard this phrase and others like it come from friends, coworkers, writers, and even myself….
Emotions in Academic Writing: A How-To and Why-Do Guide
Introduction Coming off last year’s workshops team presentations on navigating style guides, it became clear that certain academic ways of writing can appear to stifle emotions. APA style, for instance, is structured so that…
Collaborative Tutoring: Helping Writers Take the Lead
In my recent project for WRD 395, I explored how collaborative learning can improve peer tutoring. Collaborative tutoring aims to work with writers, not just help them. By learning together, both tutors and writers…
Dyslexia in the Writing Center
As a first-year peer tutor at the Writing Center, I have realized how diverse each writer is and how different their needs can be. I have come to appreciate each writer and their perspectives….
How To Tutor Screenwriting
As a second-year screenwriting student, I’ve gotten used to hearing that my work “isn’t as difficult” as my peers’ assignments from their STEM-based majors. I agree that my work is definitely different than what…
Power of the Peer vs Power of the Teacher
For my tutoring inquiry project, I chose to analyze the differences in effectiveness between peer feedback and teacher feedback. DOWNSIDE OF PEER FEEDBACK Teachers use experience and skills that aren’t necessarily accessible to peer…
Who Are We As Tutors?
This is my first year as a Writing Center peer tutor, and all I can say is that I love it. In my academic experience, I never was placed with a tutor or was…
A New Era, A New Editor
Charlie, the assistant, indulges in literature. Hello, writing community! My name is Selena, a graduate student in English Literature & Publishing with a not-so-secret love for all things literary. I spend a total of…
Linguistic Justice: What it is and how to teach it
Here at DePaul University’s Writing Center, we believe that anyone who writes anything is a writer. With that belief comes the implicit connotation that every writer, and every individual piece of writing that comes…