Venn and the Art of Writing Instruction
By Shifra Sharlin –
Category: Tutorial Talk and Methods
Honoring Tutor Excellence at UW-Madison’s Writing Center, Spring 2018
By Bradley Hughes – It’s graduation and award time, and the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to honor two of our wonderful tutor colleagues, who are the recipients of our second annual teaching awards for graduate teaching assistants on our Writing Center staff. Every semester there are between 45 and 50 […]
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 […]
“Excellent Timing and Really Great Praise”
By Jessie Gurd – “What do I want?” “How can I tell when I’ve seen it?” “When—and how—do I intervene to get it again?” These exact questions do not come up during my appointments at the Writing Center; they have another source. However, they get at something I think about a lot when working with a […]
Reading in the Writing Center, Beyond the One-on-One Session
By Angela J. Zito – With recent publications like the NCTE’s Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (2018), What is College Reading? of the WAC Clearing House (2017), and Indiana UP’s Critical Reading in Higher Education (2015), it seems that reading in colleges and universities is gaining a good deal of new critical […]
Honoring Tutor Excellence at UW-Madison’s Writing Center, Spring 2017
By Bradley Hughes – It’s graduation and award time, and the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to honor two of our wonderful tutor colleagues, who are the recipients of our first annual teaching awards for graduate teaching assistants on our Writing Center staff. Every semester there are between 45 and 50 […]
Tending Other People’s Texts: Writing Center Tutoring and MFA Workshops
By Sarah Dimick – Last winter, during a late afternoon appointment, a graduate student in the history department asked me how he might make the final chapter of his dissertation more compelling.1 We’d already discussed what I think of as skeletal concerns: the order of his paragraphs, the clarity of his topic sentences. We’d already […]
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