*Co-written with Elliot Crumpley. The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) held a workshop on October 3 focusing on American dialects. To this you might ask…
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 a new member of the Writing Groups team—and a new tutor to boot—I was mystified by all the acronyms and new vocabulary I encountered during my…
As a new tutor with the UCWbL, my appointments so far have been either in person or via email. In both cases, I’ve felt in control of…
Think of all the choices you make between your handshake with a new peer and your first glance at his/her work. First of all, do you shake…
OK, I’m not talking about a conversation partner asking for a date, or your phone number, or do you sleep in the nude, or anything like that.…
I led my first official handful of face-to-face appointments this past week and was surprised at how many of my peers were concerned with grammar usage in…
My first experiences with shadowing another tutor were understandably nerve-wracking. Having never tutored in any context before, I wasn’t quite sure how an academic tutorial would go,…
Spiced cider… The bursting colors of turning leaves… The soft sounds of your “Fall” playlist on Spotify… There are a number of reasons why we look forward…
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Playing the Waiting Game
The Breakroom, a new office comedy show created by UCWbL staff, depicts everyday tutoring scenarios in the writing center through a satirical lense. The latest episode discusses an…
Lurking in the shadows of walk-in tutorials, obsessing over sections of the UCWbL Handbook, guzzling Starbucks coffee by the pot, the new tutors wait to be unleashed…