Greetings,
Waldenites!
Recently you
may have noticed a change on the Writing Center website and
in our e-mail signatures. This is not
some ploy to confuse you all. Rather, we
have undergone a restructuring within the center, and part of this restructuring
has presented the Writing Center staff with new (and well-deserved!) titles. No
longer will you see writing tutors. Instead, we are writing instructors.
Why the switch? The Writing Center staff is a very
knowledgeable and busy group of people, and the term tutor does not accurately reflect everything we do, which is a lot:
conduct paper reviews, host webinars, create website content, answer questions
about writing, post to social media, design tutorials and course guides, write
blog posts, and teach at residencies. At
the heart of the Center is writing instruction, so the term
instructor better indicates our job
on a day-to-day basis. I hope this title
shift will better represent our work and services to people outside of our
center. It also appeases us wordsmiths. (What can I say? We are a bunch of word
nerds and grammar geeks, so having a title that did not define what we do was
just preposterous!)
What will change for you, the student? Nothing! We will still be offering all of our same services, including paper
reviews. We will just be updating our
signatures and language on the website and scheduling system to reflect these new
titles.
We are the
same folks who have always been here for you, just with shiny new titles. Stop
by our About Us page to
learn more about each of the instructors.
We look
forward to continuing to work with you!
Amy Kubista
Manager of
Writing Instructional Services
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