The first episode of the second season of Hot Topics in Writing,the UCWbL’s podcast, is finally available below for your streaming-audio pleasure! In this thirty minute show,…
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
With midterms looming and the end of the quarter in sight I thought I would share some advice and encouragement with the lovely and possibly avid readers…
“DePaul University is a learning community that fosters the pursuit of knowledge and the transmission of ideas within a context that emphasizes a sense of responsibility for…
Recently I have come to a very interesting conclusion. The five paragraph essay that we learned to write back in high school was possibly the most valuable…
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Outposted
So this is officially my last new tutor blog entry. Yesterday I had both my first day at the Richardson Library Outpost and my exit interview to…
So recently the Oxford English Dictionary has added “LOL,” “OMG” and a heart symbol as new additions to the English language. A fellow UCWbLer expressed trepidation over…
Does this scenario sound familiar? An SNL (School for New Learning) writer comes into the writing center and sits down with a tutor to work on…
This might be my last post as a “new tutor.” I am returning to the writing center without the cap on hours or the training or the…
The University Center for Writing-based Learning has officially opened the hiring season for the 2011/12 Academic Year. DePaul undergraduate and graduate students interested in becoming a peer…
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Digicating Myself
Workshops are a whole new world that I had the pleasure of jumping into for the first time today. I am not an expert, nor am I…