In the process of redesigning some resources for DePaul’s First-Year Writing Faculty, I reread the Meaningful Writing Project by Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner.…
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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The Power of Subjectivity
Before I began working at the Writing Center, I studied at the theatre school where I had a different sort of experience with reading, writing, and analysis.…
Header courtesy of Tim Foster, Unsplash Dungeons and Dragons and Tutoring, on first glance, such a sentence sounds like nonsense. Even on a second glance, okay, maybe the same.…
Hi DePaul University writers, the writing center is here for you this Spring Quarter! Our tutors are available Sunday through Friday to collaborate with you via an…
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Speedy Reading
Growing up, I was insecure about how fast I could read. I have always taken my time to read books, assignments, letters, etc. This has always been…
One of the most awkward challenges I face as a peer writing tutor is the moment when a writer asks my opinion about the potential letter grade…
What is the morning pages method!? Struggling with finding “the idea” for your research paper? Too uninspired to write? Feeling stuck during your writing process? The solution:…
One of the first appointments I had as a new UCWbL tutor involved a writer who came in with a paper that needed to be done in…
Background & Context: Why Nonlinear? When first given the opportunity to research writing, I knew that I wanted to choose something that related to not only my…
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Tutoring Creative Writing
Like many of you, much of my love of writing comes from using writing and language in fun and interesting ways. Whether it’s been journaling, poetry, short…