Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Gifts for Your Book-Loving Sweetheart

I love love, and I love Valentine’s day. Other people– I’m looking at you, Patrick K.– like to remind me that Valentine’s day is a made up…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Meet Me Halfway: A non-traditional student

When I work with non-traditional students, I often use my own experiences to help them feel more comfortable about their own writing. I’m often congratulated for starting…

Categories
New Media Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Excel Meets Moleskin

  Entering a completely unknown world can be unnerving.  When a business major, specifically Accounting, is thrown into a brainstorming machine of writing and English majors, the…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring

Second Language Writing & UCWbL Core Practices

Last week, I had a conversation with a fellow UCWbLer and the UCWbL director about working with multilingual writers. We discussed the different approaches to tutoring and…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Studying Abroad and Writing: Why Travel Matters

On an uneven and small sidewalk, my classmates laughed at each other’s silly inside jokes. We walk away from a restaurant only a few hundred feet past…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Why writers shouldn’t be afraid

Before I joined the UCWbL team as a peer tutor, I had an image of the Writing Center tutors all being literature majors that sat up in…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Writing Fellows: A New and Improved Program

The Writing Fellows Program is a cornerstone of DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning. It is comprised of peer-writing tutors who are matched with classes that they work…

Categories
Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Taking Down Those Writing Fears

“I’m a bad writer.” Don’t panic. I’m not revealing a deeply-imbedded internal struggle. However, I do hear variations of this statement on a regular basis. Writers often…

Categories
Multilingualism Peer Writing Tutoring

New UCWbLers, New Teams

As new members of a team and relatively new peer tutors, Shelley M. and I (Emily Po.) reflected on some of our first shifts as UCWbLers, appointments…

Categories
New Media Peer Writing Tutoring Research Writing about Writing

Using Assistive Technology in Writing Centers

Whenever you’re writing or collaborating with someone, you probably have a favorite go-to tactic to brainstorm or write. However, as tutors, we should consider going outside of…