Category: Updates

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Writing as Learning: Our Writing Center Blog Celebrates 13 Years and 300 Posts

Awards and Honors, Big 10 Writing Centers, Updates, UW-Madison History, Writing Center History, Writing Center Research, Writing Centers

By Bradley Hughes—This past November I was honored—and a little daunted—to have wonderful colleagues invite me to write a retrospective about this blog. Honored because as the editor of the blog from 2009 until 2019, I have loved what this blog does for its authors and readers, for the field of writing center studies, and for the UW–Madison Writing Center. Daunted because I knew it would be a lot of work and impossible to do justice to the richness of 300 posts. […]

March 8, 2022
Isabella Robinson designed this brightly colored and modern banner advertising the UW-Madison Writing Center. Featured is a collage of trees, a lake, pencils, and a location indicator.

New Tutors Enrich Our Writing Center

Big 10 Writing Centers, Diversity and Inclusion, Graduate Students, Peer Tutoring, Staff Introductions, Updates, Writing Center Tutors, Writing Centers

By Emily Bouza—During this academic year, we have added many new tutors to the Writing Center that have brought an increased diversity of perspectives and experiences to our team. We now have tutors from fields including Applied Linguistics, Art History, African Cultural Studies, Composition and Rhetoric, Curriculum Instruction, English, English as a Second Language, Folklore Studies […]

February 8, 2022
Freshly fallen snow covers the ground and bear tears. An unplowed, but driven road cuts through the center

Upcoming Changes to Another Word

Updates

By Ellen Cecil-Lemkin and Jennifer Conrad—Welcome to a new year and a new semester! We hope that your break offered everything you needed to start the semester feeling replenished and perhaps even energized. This time of year offers a chance to reflect on and evaluate our opportunities, successes, and habits to determine […]

January 25, 2022
Dark blue city scape against a blue backdrop. Text reads 2018 CCCC Annual Convention

Writing Center Tutors as Comp-Rhet Researchers: Some Notes from CCCC in Kansas City

Graduate Students, Tutorial Talk and Methods, Updates, Writing Center Conference, Writing Center Research

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 […]

April 16, 2018
Total solar eclipse

The Tutoring Corona: New Perspectives on Professional Development for Tutors

From the Director, Updates, Writing Centers

By Bradley Hughes—The staff of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison warmly welcomes you to our blog for a new academic year! As in many other parts of the US, on August 21st eclipse fever touched many of us here in Madison, Wisconsin. In southern Wisconsin, the eclipse was, alas, not total—just about 85%. Even though it was cloudy that day in Madison, I joined a number of colleagues who had spontaneously gathered at the peak, […]

September 5, 2017