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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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
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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…
I had the opportunity to sit in this morning on “Coffee and Commenting,” a forum for DePaul’s Writing Fellows (and some Tutors) to give and receive peer…
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Stage Fright
I have always been fiercely defensive about my own writing. As a teenager, I remember composing my very first piece of what we now know as Creative…
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Let the Shadowing Begin
How boring is it when you start a new job and all they do is give you a list of duties, or dry pages of a handbook…
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First Day on the Job
Starting something new is never easy. Whether it’s a new job or a new piece of writing things are always a bit shaky or at least a…