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.…
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
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…
This morning the Research Team led the second in-service of the autumn quarter. For the past year the Team has been assessing the effectiveness of UCWbL practices…
“The Hatter opened his eyes very wide…but all he said was, ‘How is a raven like a writing desk?’ ”
Attention, UCWbLers! Research Team here! Have you ever wanted to know how students feel about your work as tutors? Have you ever wondered how many tutorials the…
Even though I’m only at the start of my career as a new DePaul University Writing Center tutor, it feels like I’ve been getting on-the-job training all…