So, you finally finished that piece of writing you have been working on for days, weeks, or months. This pile of words you’ve painstakingly crafted feel like…
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.
Learning a language is by no means an easy task; learning nuances like vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure the first time is difficult enough, but it can…
Written by Riley Andrews and Audrey Champelli Hello fellow tutors here at the University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL)! We are here to talk about strategies for…
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Assimilation Ain’t It.
At the Writing Center, we strive to create a space that is safe for all writers. This means accommodating each appointment to the individual writer we are…
A Brief Overview Scaffolding is a teaching technique that supports the learner by gradually building their independence that can take a variety of different forms. Motivational scaffolding…
“Cognitive and motivational scaffolding” is a term that pops up quite often in Writing Center scholarship, but its definition is a bit elusive and hard to pin…
By Alayne T., Anastasia K., and Koko T. What is Cognitive Scaffolding? Cognitive scaffolding is a teaching and tutoring method in which the tutor controls elements of…
It is that time in the quarter where everyone is scrambling to piece together that final research paper (myself included). The UCWbL will soon be very busy…
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Remote Reflections
It’s not groundbreaking to say this past year has been hard. Our routines, social lives, and work lives have been fundamentally altered. I have noticed a lot…
I remember being in high school when my English teachers would toss out the phrase “the human condition” as we discussed the dystopian nightmare of Orwell’s 1984, or…