Challenging Ableism and Institutional Barriers Through Writing Center Work
By Brenna Swift –
Category: Graduate Students
Writing Center Tutors as Comp-Rhet Researchers: Some Notes from CCCC in Kansas City
By Nancy Linh Karls All of us in leadership roles at the UW-Madison Writing Center are proud of our undergraduate Writing Fellows and our graduate tutors for many reasons: for doing an outstanding job of supporting student writers, for continually challenging themselves to learn more, and for being all-around great colleagues and friends. We also […]
More Than Words: A Collaborative Approach to Writing Instruction in a Graduate Science Seminar
By Nancy Linh Karls – With 2016 soon drawing to a close, many of us have been reflecting on what we’ve been able to accomplish over the past year. For staff in the UW-Madison Writing Center, that’s a pretty significant list: meeting with thousands of student-writers in one-to-one sessions at our main location and across our […]
The Bicameral Writing Mind: Writing Tutors as Writers
By Leigh Elion – I’m angry with Paul Silvia. Don’t get me wrong. He seems like a very nice person. When he came to UW-Madison in 2013 to speak with our Writing Center tutors, he was funny, generous, and insightful. Silvia is a psychology professor at UNC-Greensboro. His book, How to Write a Lot, offers […]
Which Shoes Should You Choose? A Meditation on Indecisiveness in Writing
By Zach Marshall
How We [Actually] Write: Neurodiversity, Writing Process, and Writing Instruction
By Leah Pope Leah Pope has been a Writing Center tutor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since fall of 2014. She is also a PhD candidate in English literary studies, writing a dissertation that explores representations of disability and bodily difference in Anglo-Saxon England. Alexandra Gillespie opens her essay in How We Write: Thirteen Ways […]
Teaming Up: A Collaboration between the Writing Center and the Library
By Nancy Linh Karls and Barbara Sisolak Nancy Linh Karls is a senior instructor in the UW-Madison Writing Center, where she serves as its science-writing specialist. She also leads and teaches the Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camps and coordinates the community-based Madison Writing Assistance program. Barbara Sisolak is a senior academic librarian with Steenbock Library, where she […]
Writing Center Workshops: Test-Drive an Academic Writing Genre Today!
By Zach Marshall Zach Marshall is the 2015-16 TA Assistant Director of the Writing Center at UW-Madison, where he has been a tutor since fall 2012. He is also a PhD candidate in English literary studies writing a dissertation on American literature, slavery, and media culture. Here at the UW-Madison Writing Center, we offer a […]
“A Life-Changing Experience”: Some Reflections on the Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp
By Chris Earle, Kevin Mullen, Rebecca Couch Steffy, and Nancy Linh Karls Chris Earle is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at UW-Madison, where he also serves as the Assistant Director of the Writing Center. Kevin Mullen completed his doctorate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison and currently teaches writing with the UW Odyssey Project. Rebecca Couch Steffy […]
Confronting the Politics of Language Diversity in the Writing Center
By Rachel Carrales Rachel Carrales has worked in the writing center at UW-Madison since 2010. She is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at UW-Madison, where she studies how middle-class mothers use their literacy practices to respond to the ideology of domesticity. In addition to working as a tutor in the writing center at […]