For a new writing center employee, walking down the brick paths of the SAC to your first shift at the UCWbL can be a thrill-ride of anxiety…
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
During Autumn Quarter, on Monday and Wednesday mornings, I took extra care to make it from my apartment to nearest El stop before 11:06. This was the last…
As a sophomore, I have already built some level of comfort with my goals as a professionally developing individual. Those goals are mainly focused on combining my…
When I was first beginning to consider applying for a job at the UCWbL, one part of the job that really caught my eye was the…
Before I started working at the UCWbL, I never, ever, ever, EVER listened to music while writing. I thought of it as a form of multitasking: a…
Tutoring a Writer vs. Leading a Workshop When I was accepted as a member of the Workshops Team this year, I expected to encounter a different side…
As peer writing tutors at the UCWbL, we have to keep in mind all of our core practices and readings when collaboratively participating in our sessions with writers.…
On Friday, October 3, 2014, an UCWbL leadership meeting merged with a freshmen EDGE student meeting, which was led by Sarah Carbone, Assistant Director of Student Employment…
The UCWbL Workshops Team is off to a busy start in the 2014 Autumn Quarter! We have already facilitated several in-class workshops on the topics of Digication,…
Agenda Share: what blogs do you read? Discuss: why does the UCWbL have a blog? Brainstorm blog topics in groups Read & Reflect: “How to Write an…