I bet that if you ask anyone at the UCWbL that question, they would say “No!” without any hesitation or thought. Writing Tutors don’t edit obviously, we…
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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
I sat through four years of high school French—four long, hard, years. That’s four years of snarkily pronouncing “bonjour” as “bon-jur.” Four years of counting the seconds…
At the UCWbL, we talk a lot about best practices, and we work hard every quarter to refine and perfect our approaches to all kinds of tutoring…
Dear Head: I’ve found myself feeling alone sometimes in the UCWbL. I look around and everyone is working one-on-one with writers. I see them setting agendas, writing…
Dear Head: I’m worried about my time management skills. How can I make sure to keep track of my appointments?—Dressed to Impress in McGaw Dear Dressed to Impress,…
Good morning, UCWbLers and other writing-loving friends! Now that the autumn quarter is in full swing, we asked one of our new UCWbL writing tutors and graduate…
Sometimes when I’m writing my tutor logs, I need to remind myself that we didn’t read the paper aloud, the writer counting off “1 – 2 –…
A writer sat down for his session and told me that he’d been working in finance for years, and he was only enrolled in the School for…
A frantic writer sat in front of me with an assignment due two hours following his appointment. This writer, an ESL student, wanted to fix the grammar…
What do you think of Teacher’s Assistants, and how are they distinct from peer tutors? In “The ‘Model Tutor’ In the Classroom: But Which Model Works?” from…