Writing Center Teams help us achieve our mission and explore new and better ways to support writers and writing, increase the Writing Center's visibility, advance writing knowledge, and contribute to the profession.
Team Members
Team members utilize their diverse skill sets to contribute to various Writing Center teams and special projects. Team members are provided with exciting opportunities to collaborate, develop professionally, and contribute to conversations about writing at DePaul and beyond.
Each team has a limited number of spots for members based on the scope of each team's goals and initiatives. Writing Center tutors apply to join a team before the start of each quarter.
So that they may devote their time to learning about the Writing Center and working as peer writing tutors, tutors cannot join a team their first quarter of employment. New tutors, however, are encouraged to participate in team events to help them learn more about teams and to become more involved in Writing Center initiatives.
Workshops are customized, research-based, interactive events that focus on a variety of writing topics. The Workshop team works together with a coordinator to develop and facilitate Workshops for the Writing Center and the larger DePaul Community. Tutors who join the Workshops team support the team’s mission by proposing, developing, and conducting Professional Development Workshops for their colleagues at the Writing Center.
Mission
The Writing Center’s Workshops Coordinator works with specially trained tutors who serve as facilitators to plan, develop, and conduct topic-specific workshops for the DePaul community.
We provide workshops to the DePaul community that focus on transferable writing skills and practices that apply beyond particular writing exigencies. All workshops emphasize hands-on learning about writing and communication so that participants learn new skills and build on their existing knowledge.
Team Works
The yearly Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) are an avenue for tutors to explore topics of interest in the field of tutoring and provide training on those topics for their co-workers. These workshops are presented tri-modally (in-person, Zoom, and recorded) during Spring Quarter and are usually 60 to 90 minutes long. They are based on a rigorous process of research, training, and collaboration.