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…
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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
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…
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Learning to Fly
After weeks of shadowing, being shadowed and asking every other tutor within a five-mile radius if I could look over their shoulder at their online appointments, I…
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In the Business
This was it! Today was my first day being my own tutor. I was so excited I looked up my WCOnline schedule from home almost immediately after waking…
I’ve been sitting on my first lead tutoring experience for a few days now, trying to figure out how exactly to classify it. Successful? Not so much?…
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Almost There
It was nerve wrecking and a little strange, but what could I really do if the writer had a great handle on her assignment and it was…