When I became a tutor in Autumn Quarter of last year, I didn’t think that tutoring would necessarily help me out in my future career. I want…
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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
Before the UCWbL opened for appointments two weeks ago, tutors, fellows, and administrators gatheredfor the annual Winter quarter staff retreat. The program changes every year, but usually…
No matter how much you love to tutor, the extent to which you enjoy the company of other UCWbL employees, or whether or not you are the…
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…
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.…