Writing Group as Community: The Case of DePaul’s Writers Guild

By Jen Finstrom and Matthew Fledderjohann – Jen Finstrom and Matthew Fledderjohann served together as graduate assistants and then professional staff at DePaul University’s University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL) for four years. During that time, Jen began in her capacity as a facilitator for Writers Guild—the UCWbL’s creative writers’ writing group—and Matthew was a […]

September 18, 2017

Tending Other People’s Texts: Writing Center Tutoring and MFA Workshops

Collaborative Learning, Tutorial Talk and Methods, Uncategorized, Writing Center Tutors, Writing Centers

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 […]

March 13, 2017

Another Word

From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tag: creative writing

Writing Group as Community: The Case of DePaul’s Writers Guild

Tending Other People’s Texts: Writing Center Tutoring and MFA Workshops