When approaching any new environment, especially while seeking help, the concept of vulnerability is a powerful emotion. Though it’s easy to forget, there are certain power dynamics…
Category: Writing about Writing
Lessons, tips, and reflections on being writers; especially discussing the process of composing words, different genres and their related techniques, and meaningful glimpses into their growth as authors, tutors, and readers.
Why is it important to find a tutor that’s right for you as a writer? In the writing center, we experience a variety of writing that we…
How can we, as peer tutors, aid writers in overcoming their fear of sharing their work? In our research, we analyzed why writers are anxious to share…
In recent years, multiliteracy has become a central idea in how we approach learning. Multiliteracy refers to fluency in not only spoken language like English, but across…
I can still hear my ballet teachers, whether Vaganova devotees or Balanchine disciples, verbally harkening back to an earlier combination, movement, or place in the studio and…
Through our research on Writing Center pedagogy and creative writing tutoring, we established five main focuses that can help prepare and enable tutors to provide the best…
Introduction As someone who loves to read and write stories, I know firsthand how subjective they can be. Personal preference alone can decide whether a reader praises…
“I’m not a writer. I’ve never been all that great at writing and I probably never will be.” I’ve heard this phrase and others like it come…
Introduction Coming off last year’s workshops team presentations on navigating style guides, it became clear that certain academic ways of writing can appear to stifle emotions. APA…
In my recent project for WRD 395, I explored how collaborative learning can improve peer tutoring. Collaborative tutoring aims to work with writers, not just help them.…