Tag: creative writing

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

Tutor Publications, Writing Centers, Writing Groups

 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 regular […]

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