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…
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
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…
In preparation for a workshop this fall, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has been doing a lot of research on American accents and dialects.…
Americans will choose their next president on November 6, 2012. Although this is many months away, the campaign for the presidency is already in full swing. Each…
Some colleagues of mine at the UCWbL have written up a great piece to help those of you working on Digication e-portfolios. If you need some advice…
DePaul’s School for New Learning (SNL) provides adult students opportunities to learn from experience and gain academic credit by recognizing and developing certain competencies. It should be…
This Friday, May 13th, the UCWbL’s Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research will be hosting a workshop on how social media can help improve language learning skills. If…