Last Friday my fellow Faculty Development and Research team members and I explored our artsy-fartsy sides with an inservice titled “Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric” in preparation for…
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
Ever wish you could have learned from something more engaging than dry old textbooks in elementary school? Love comics and new media teaching? Reading with Pictures, a…
Read a mystery, explore culture, and meet people from all over the world! The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research does all this every Friday. On April…
Two weeks ago I started a new internship with a literary agency. Writing and editing are my passions, and after working at the Writing Center for the…
In 1997, geographer Erik Swyngedouw challenged the way that scholars viewed globalization with the publication of “Neither Global nor Local: ‘Glocalization’ and the Politics of Scale.” The…
The In Class Workshop Team is all set to begin a new quarter, and we’re more eager than ever as we’ve added four new members to our…
As writing center tutors, we want to help writers as much as we can. We want to make sure that if a writer makes a one-hour appointment…
I’m gonna let you in on a secret. You might not notice it as you and your tutor talk about your paper, but around this time of…
As a first-time writing tutor last term, I had new experiences and new lessons to learn almost every week. When Winter Quarter came around, I thought I…
In the process of an overwhelming internship search, I have been updating, rearranging, and tailoring my resume to fit the perceived expectations of prospective employers in both…