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…
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
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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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…
Something that flies a little under the radar here at the Writing Center is reception as a tool for learning about tutoring. As peer tutors at DePaul,…
It was an unseasonably warm March night, at about 12 am, and I was frantically searching the campus job board under the dim light of my computer…
This is Part Two of a post appeared on UCWbLing on 04/25/2022 Something I really struggled with when I first started working as a peer tutor was…
When I first started working as a peer tutor at the DePaul University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL), I found one of my biggest challenges to be…
I’m a Music Performance major. When I tell people that I work at the DePaul’s Writing Center as a peer tutor, I’m often met with reactions of…
As you may already know, Professional Development workshops have been part of working as a Writing Center tutor since forever. Topics are always timely, relevant, and useful.…
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Context is Key
As peer writing tutors, we’re often taught how to best help our authors with growing into their skills and cultivating their truest vision for a draft or…