Writing Center Work: The Proof in the Pudding
By Scott Chiu –
Category: Peer Tutoring
Honoring Tutor Excellence at UW-Madison’s Writing Center, Spring 2019
By Bradley Hughes It’s graduation and award time, and the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to honor three of our wonderful tutor colleagues, who are the recipients of our third annual teaching awards for graduate teaching assistants on our Writing Center staff. Every semester there are between 45 and 50 doctoral-level […]
Catching Up with the New Writing Center at Johnson Creek High School
By Mike Haen and Brenna Swift –
A New Collaboration: Welcoming a High School Writing Center to UW-Madison
By Mike Haen and Brenna Swift –
Getting to the Roots of L2 Writer Experiences
By Molly Rentscher and Vicki Kennell –
Challenging Ableism and Institutional Barriers Through Writing Center Work
By Brenna Swift –
Holding Your Gaze: Non-Verbal Communication Strategies in Writing Center Work
By Cydney Alexis and Billie Schwartz One night in Philadelphia, my sister Billie and I were dining with friends, and the topic of eye contact came up. While she was able to maintain steady eye contact with most of us at the table, a couple of us noticed our eyes darting to the side when […]
Revision Takes Time: Teaching Inefficiency in the Writing Center
By Emily L. Loney “I may correct an accidental slip (I am full of them, since I run on regardless) but it would be an act of treachery to remove such imperfections as are commonly and always in me.” [1] In 1588, Michel de Montaigne told readers that, although he was revising his Essays, he […]
Behind the Scenes at the UW-Madison Writing Center’s Online Writer’s Handbook
By Bradley Hughes—always think that strong writing centers have core principles and commitments and passions at (and in) their hearts. Our Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, is all about a few core ideas, values, and commitments—we’re about supporting high-level writing across all academic disciplines, writing which is absolutely central to learning and to research across the university and in the professional and civic and non-profit worlds our graduates will enter (I always say that research universities really do run on writing); we’re about supporting ALL student-writers, from undergraduates through advanced doctoral students, from every discipline, from all kinds of backgrounds […]
Unexpected Power Boost: Persona 5 & Writing Center Tutoring
By Niccole Carner When I began working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center this past fall (2017), I was in the midst of my first play-through of Persona 5, a Japanese role-playing game developed by Atlus Games for the PlayStation 4. My approach to the first weeks of teaching was subtly and inadvertently influenced […]