When I was brainstorming what I wanted my goals to be for this year would be, I kept coming back to the idea of resumes. Growing up…
Category: Professional Development
Insightful summaries of tutor’s research about writing and tutoring writing performed for the Writing Center’s trimestral Professional Development workshops.
On Friday, October 26, multiple peer tutoring and mentoring departments from across the university came together for the Peer Tutor & Mentor Summit, an annual day of…
I know that I’ve run into a wall when working with EAL writers. Often, I’ll get stumped on trying to explain grammar rules, sentence structure, and all…
The dreaded LSAT exams. The monotonous lists of essay questions that ask you why you’re interested in pursuing law and what kind of strengths you would bring…
The first class I took as a graduate student at DePaul was WRD 582: Writing Center Theory and Pedagogy. I spent a semester as a tutor at…
I will be wrapping up my third and final year at the UCWbL, which came and went way too fast. When IÂ started this academic year, I was…
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MLA Citations Workshop
Workshops are provided by the University Center for Writing-based Learning on a request by request basis. These requests are sent to the Workshop Team’s Coordinator Katie Martin.…
Just like Emmet from The LEGO Movie, we each have some undiscovered or tacit philosophy and values within our work at the UCWbL and beyond, even though…
You got accepted! Congratulations! I knew if you tried you could certainly do it. So, what happens now? Part of the process of preparing for that presentation…
Every quarter, tutors at the UWCbL attend at least one inservice. Inservices are 90-minute workshops that focus on a specific aspect of writing or tutoring. Sam G.…