This interview was recorded via Zoom on Monday, February 14th, between DePaul University’s writing tutor Ishika B. and Wheaton College’s writing consultant Eunice R. The current blog editor…
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’m not usually the type of person who anticipates the new year, but for the first time in a while, 2022 felt like a fresh start… at…
Editor’s note: This post features a lovely throwback to previous staff members and treasured memories. On February 24, 2017, I attended the quarterly event, Dandelions in the…
I’ve been a creative writer for seven years and have submitted my short pieces to multiple academic workshops for critique and revision. And it’s not easy. Never easy. Whether…
Ever since I joined the University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL) staff in the fall quarter of 2020, I found it hard to stay on top of…
As I complete my appointments, I often catch myself wondering — Did I do that right? Is my feedback what the writer needs? Omg, what if they…
We’ve all been there. We’re in an appointment, trying to point out to a writer why a certain sentence just doesn’t make sense. But we can’t think…
Hello fellow UCWbLers, my name is Megan L., and post is going to contain some strategies I have developed for tutoring a literature review after doing a…
At the University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL), you may have a writer come in that is intimidated because they have to draft a paper that provides…
The other day, I had an appointment with a student who needed help understanding a reading for class because she had to write a response to it.…