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…
Category: Peer Writing Tutoring
Reflections on tutor’s professional experiences and poignant advice about the role itself; challenges they faced and/or victories with their important teachings; the divergent writerly genres one might encounter; and the scope of such position beyond the Writing Center
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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…
As rewarding as being a Peer Writing Tutor can be, the constant influx of research essays, rhetorical analyses, and other typical academic papers can get a bit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…