Peer Tutor Requirements
Requirements:
- Applicants must have good academic standing as an undergraduate student enrolled at least half time at UWO.
- Applicants must have completed TBIS/WBIS (or its equivalent) with a grade of B or better.
- Applicants must be proficient in writing, skilled in peer response, and motivated to help others with their writing.
- Applicants should have a strong interest in learning about the history, theory, and practice of tutoring in writing.
- In addition, Writing Center tutors must be responsible, mature, and self-directed. They should demonstrate that they can maintain professionalism while working with clients who are their peers.
- Experience tutoring in writing, student teaching, or other forms of tutoring are preferred, although not required.
Student Assistants and Work Study students are both encouraged to apply.
Job Description:
Responsibilities of Peer Tutors in Writing include:
- tutoring students of varying levels of expertise on all aspects of their writing.
- working individually with students to help them better understand and improve their writing processes.
- participating in peer tutor training and professional development.
- attending weekly Writing Center staff meetings.
- making appointments, completing tutoring logs, and corresponding with instructors.
- working on special Writing Center projects.
- maintaining a personal tutoring log that might lead to articles published in professional journals or newsletters.
- working collaboratively with other tutors, the graduate student intern, and the Writing Center director.
Hours are flexible and vary according to tutors’ schedules. Tutors work during the Fall and Spring fourteen-week terms and (depending upon funding) during the Fall and Spring three-week Interims. Pay rate is comparable to Student Assistant salaries across campus.
To Apply:
Submit the following to Dr. Crystal Mueller, Writing Center Director:
- a cover letter detailing your qualifications for and interest in this position;
- your resume, including any tutoring, teaching, customer service, or other relevant experience;
- a copy of your STAR Report;
- a 3–5 page sample of your academic writing (a paper that makes an argument, not a creative piece) with a cover page that briefly explains the assignment for which you wrote the paper and why you chose to submit this particular piece; and
- one letter of recommendation (preferably from an instructor familiar with your writing).
Deliver this information to Dr. Mueller in the Department of English, Radford Hall, 212. If you have questions, please e-mail her.
