It goes something like this. Let’s call this writer “Bartleby,” or Bart for short. Bart arrives at the writing center for his two-hour appointment, and you greet…
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
As tutors, we undergo a lot of training to be able to understand where our writers are coming from and how to best help them revise or…
I am not, by nature, a confrontational person. With that in mind, one of the hardest things to do in a tutorial, for me, is to respond…
Miranda S. and Jenny Y. here to talk to you guys about our decision to pursue a position at the UCWbL after surviving the grueling application process—a…
If you’re like me, then working in a writing center is the first time you have worked in a place where you might have to face a…
I walked into my first Digication workshop terrified. Well, terrified may be too strong of a word – but I was definitely nervous and with good reason.…
We all know it when we see it. A writer is reading aloud their paper, and something about a sex or gender or racial term just sounds…off.…
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The Theoretical “Writer”
Tommy and Logan here to talk some theory with you. When we read and discuss writing center theory in class, we necessarily associate and apply any given…
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Tutoring Creatively
As a creative writer, I have gotten more than once during a tutoring session, students asking how in the world I could possibly be qualified to tutor…
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Talent = Tutor?
I live with a chemist and a teacher. From what I can tell the Chemist works as hard as anyone on campus; he is, however, not the…