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Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric

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…

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Support Something Cool: Graphic Textbooks

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…

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Multilingualism Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

This Quarter at the CMWR

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…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Internships: Taking the Next Step

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…

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Towards a Linguistic “Glocalization”: A Geographic Approach to Writing Center Theory.

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…

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ICW Tips for Tutors: Setting Objectives

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…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

What Do I Talk About?: Making the Most of Your Time

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…

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Sitting on Top of the World: How to Think Like an Administrator

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…

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Relishing the Repeating Appointment

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…

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Resume Advice: Should a Tutor Push the One-page Rule?

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…