During my application process to graduate school, I found that one of the most confusing and difficult parts of the process was the dreaded Personal Statement (AKA…
Category: Professional Development
Insightful summaries of tutor’s research about writing and tutoring writing performed for the Writing Center’s trimestral Professional Development workshops.
Emotions are one of the foundational elements of writing. Despite this apparent distinction, emotions have often needed to be addressed further within the Writing Center environment. Whether…
I’ve been a Writing Center peer tutor since my sophomore year at DePaul, and I can easily say that working here has been one of the most…
Every winter and spring quarter in what I’ve dubbed “internship application season,” I’ve found myself writing and rewriting my resume and thinking about how to best talk…
For our peer writing tutor class, Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse 395, Valerie M. and I focused on the transferable skills that are learned through Writing Center work.…
For our Tutoring Inquiry Project, my group chose to research what skills we gain and develop as peer writing tutors and how those extend beyond the Writing…
Looking for more resources about creative writing to share during Writing Center appointments? Want to learn more about writing novels? Here is a list of articles for…
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…
Or, What reading The Defining Decade taught me about work life as a twentysomething I am very much in the midst of my twenties, and when I…
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Thank You UCWbL
I still remember to this day, seeing DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based learning (UCWbL) hiring sign in the window of SAC 212. I was a —slightly younger…