This section shares information on national and international programs.
School: American University of Sharjah
Website: https://www.aus.edu/cas/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Our program first trains Writing Fellows for their positions as writing tutors in WRI 221: Peer Tutoring in Writing. They are then assigned to provide writing support to all students enrolled in a class whose professor has planned a writing assignment. The professor and the Writing Fellow work closely together to ensure that the Writing Fellow understands the professor's goals and expectations for the assignments.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Maria Eleftheriou: meleftheriou@aus.edu
School: Appalachian State University
Website: https://wac.appstate.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Classroom Writing Instruction Support
Description: Experts in the teaching and learning of writing are available to provide specific instructional support for any course at Appalachian State. We offer generalized workshops and support in the following areas: Writing Across Curriculums, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Strategies, Writing to Learn, Portfolio and Reflective Writing, Vertical Writing Curriculum Overview, Technical Error, Plagiarism, Documentation Style (MLA, APA, and Chicago), etc. We also offer individually designed sessions created in consultation with the faculty member and designed to support context-specific student learning.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Elizabeth Carroll: carrollel@appstate.edu
School: Arizona State University
Website: https://cisa.asu.edu/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Mentors
Description: Writing mentors are peer tutors who work with students in the Writers’ Studio to provide good feedback on writing projects and to assist with moderating group discussions. Writing mentors reflect the core values of the program, namely, that writing is a social act and that collaboration among peers is a valuable and highly effective method of learning. Together with instructors, writing mentors work closely with students in the Writers’ Studio to foster a collaborative, interactive online learning space.
Compensation: Starting pay is $12.42/hour.
Contact: Michelle Stuckey: Michelle.Stuckey@asu.edu
School: Augustana College
Website: https://augustana.edu/learning-commons/reading-writing-center
Fellows Name/Synonym: Faculty Tutors
Description: Our peer tutors represent a range of different Augie majors.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Lucas Street: LucasStreet@augustana.edu
School: Barnard College
Website: https://barnard.edu/magazine/spring-2012/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Writing Fellows are trained Barnard undergraduates who work with their peers to strengthen student writing in all disciplines. First-years and sophomores in all majors are encouraged to apply.
Compensation: $1050 stipend per semester
Contact: Pamela Cobrin: pcobrin@barnard.edu
School: Boston College
Website: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/english/programs.html#writing_fellows_program
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows Program at Boston College began in 2004 as an initiative to enhance the effectiveness of writing and writing instruction in undergraduate courses across the curriculum. The Writing Fellows Program pairs trained graduate-student writing fellows with faculty members who want to focus more attention on student writing in a course. Writing fellows meet individually with students and assist them with three to four papers during the semester, offering feedback on paper drafts.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Marla De Rosa: marla.derosa@bc.edu
School: Bridgewater State University
Website: https://www.bridgew.edu/graduate/fellowship-programs
Fellows Name/Synonym: Graduate Writing Fellows
Description: Assist students with writing projects via face-to-face meetings, email, telephone calls, SKYPE/FaceTime; provide writing assistance, as relevant, to all students in a specific academic program through workshops, newsletters, writing tips, program Blackboard sites, classroom visits, etc.; present at least two GWF workshops each semester, either to specific program or university-wide; attend monthly training at workshops presented by the Director of the Graduate Writing Fellowship Program; attend the Graduate Fellowship Orientation in September; participate in the spring Student Arts and Research Symposium
Compensation: Tuition/Fees Reimbursement for 6 graduate credits each fall and spring semester, bi-weekly stipend, and parking pass.
Contact: gradadmissions@bridgew.edu
School: Brigham Young University
Website: https://rwc.byu.edu/employment/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultant
Description: Writing Fellows work as “course-embedded consultants” for specific classes, assisting students and professors on writing assignments in undergraduate and graduate contexts. Writing consultants collaborate with writers from across campus, striving to help them improve their writing and build confidence as writers. Strong applicants demonstrate excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal and academic skills, maturity and professionalism in workplace settings, an ability to help others learn and develop as writers, a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development, and substantial college-level writing experience. Writing consultants receive internationally-recognized CRLA tutor certification and gain additional experience through project-based learning in areas such as professional writing, teaching, research, and mentoring.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: David Stock: david_stock@byu.edu
School: Bronx Community College
Website: https://site.bcc.cuny.edu/wac/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows Program is a CUNY-wide initiative designed to improve the quality of writing instruction across the disciplines and offer support for advanced CUNY doctoral students. Writing Fellows participate in weekly professional development meetings led by the WAC coordinator, attend CUNY-wide WAC workshops, and work with WI faculty. Fellows work as consultants, rather than a tutor or a teaching assistant, to help expand the work of WAC at BCC.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Swan Kim: swan.kim@bcc.cuny.edu
School: Brown University
Website: https://sheridan.brown.edu/programs/learning-collaborative/writing/writing-fellows-program
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: This Program trains selected undergraduates as writing consultants and makes them available to work with students taking courses in a wide variety of disciplines. The Writing Fellows assigned to a given course comment on students' written work and hold individual conferences with students where they discuss these comments and revision strategies. By reinforcing writing skills across the curriculum, the Program helps students learn to adapt to different modes/genres, audiences, and rhetorical situations. Writing Fellows also play an important role in helping students satisfy the undergraduate writing requirement at Brown.
Compensation: $1,620 stipend per semester for their work
Contact: Jenna Morton-Aiken: Jenna_morton-Aiken@brown.edu
School: California State University, Long Beach
Fellows Name/Synonym: Content-Specific Tutors, Supplemental Instruction Leaders, and ESL Specialists
Description: Not stated
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Chris Jolly: Chris.Jolly@csulb.edu or Alex Hoang: Alex.Hoang@csulb.edu
School: Cal Poly
Website: https://writingandlearning.calpoly.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Peer Tutor
Description: Offers individual and group tutoring in any subject, course embedded learning assistance, and academic support workshops intended to ensure optimal educational opportunities for diverse student populations.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Dawn Janke: djanke@calpoly.edu
School: Carleton College
Website: https://www.carleton.edu/writing-center/writing-assistant-wa-job-description/wa_job_description/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Assistants
Description: Writing Assistants assist faculty in supporting students to become independent writers who employ mature writing processes in all disciplines. WAs enhance communication between professors and students. The same students who are nominated by faculty, recruited, interviewed, and trained for tutoring in the writing center also function as WAs attached to specific courses with the Writing Rich (WR designation). In that capacity, WAs use their training as tutors as well as their own savvy about college writing to function as informed peers. Detailed responsibilities for WAs will vary from course to course and professor to professor.
Compensation: $11.25/hour
Contact: Kathy Evertz: kevertz@carleton.edu
School: City University of New York
Website: https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/undergraduate-studies/wac/
https://bacwritingfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows are CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students trained in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) pedagogy. WAC is a CUNY-mandated program (1999) requiring that informal (ungraded) and formal writing become a robust and integrated aspect of course-work at all levels of instruction. They work with students, offering writing workshops, handout materials, and individual tutoring, assist faculty, providing resources on writing issues, strategies to avoid plagiarism, assignment design and scaffolding, diagnostic and assessment rubrics, and writing-to-learn activities.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: writingfellows@sps.cuny.edu
School: Clemson University
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/writing/about/writing-fellow.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Clemson Writing Center is currently staffed by Undergraduate Writing Fellows and Graduate Writing Fellows. Undergraduate Writing Fellows undergo a rigorous application process while Graduate Writing Fellows are employed through the Department of English as part of their assistantship.
Compensation: $1500 each semester
Contact: Chelsea Murdock: cjmurdo@clemson.edu
School: Coe College
Website: https://www.coe.edu/academics/coe-difference-centers-and-programs/writing-across-curriculum
Fellows Name/Synonym: Peer Consultants
Description: Our goal is to engage our community in conversations about writing; to that end, we not only help students with a particular writing assignment, but we strive to help them become more effective and confident writers.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Allison Carr: acarr@coe.edu.
School: Curry College
Fellows Name/Synonym: Faculty Writing Fellows
Description: The Faculty Writing Fellows program cultivates and supports a culture of writing at Curry College. The program supports other efforts to retain and prepare students to be successful, bolster the vertical writing curriculum established through the General Education Program, and make written communication a hallmark of the Curry experience. Fellows take part in an intensive, hybrid course during Spring semester. In the subsequent two (2) academic years, Fellows serve as advisors on the teaching, response, and assessment of writing within their discipline for their respective departments and serve as members of the Writing Council to assess the RWE course requirements and implementation. Fellows also agree to teach at least one (1) RWE course each year for the three (3) years following.
Compensation: In return for their time and service, Faculty Writing Fellows will receive: one (1) course release during semester they take the hybrid course; a Certificate of Completion for their DEC file; the ability to make any course section they teach RWE (regardless of whether other sections are designated as such); ongoing support from the RWE Coordinator in publication and presentation opportunities related to writing studies (i.e., articles on teaching writing for disciplinary trade journals); ongoing support from the RWE Coordinator for testing these same pedagogical principles in introductory/First-Year courses.
Contact: Kara Provost: kara.provost@curry.edu or: writingprogram@curry.edu
School: DePaul University
Website: https://condor.depaul.edu/~writing/programs-writing-fellows.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Writing Fellows work with classes across DePaul’s Colleges & Schools to provide writers with revision-oriented feedback on their writing. Working with Writing Fellows allows instructors to build paper revision into their syllabuses & get tangible support throughout the revision process.
Writing Fellows offer detailed, revision-oriented written feedback on writers' drafts, including both marginal comments and a summary comment. Writing Fellows confer in real time with writers to help them make substantive and meaningful revisions on their drafts before handing them in for a final grade. Writing Fellows work with instructors to gain a comprehensive understanding of assignments in order to assist writers in their appointments. Most Writing Fellows Cohorts do two rounds of feedback; each round consists of a Written Feedback appointment and a Face-to-Face or Online Real-time appointment.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Edward Evins: edward.evins@depaul.edu
School: Elon University
Website: https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/writing-excellence/the-writing-center/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Center Consultants, and Disciplinary Writing Consultants
Description: The Writing Across the University Program coordinates all efforts to support the teaching and learning of writing on Elon’s campus. The WAU Program provides a range of support including:
individual or departmental consultations for developing writing outcomes, assignments, and evaluation criteria, writing boot camps and writing groups, writing pedagogy and research grants
faculty and staff writing pedagogy workshops, and assistance designing disciplinary writing research projects
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact Julia Bleakney: jbleakney@elon.edu or Paula Rosinski: prosinski@elon.edu
School: Emory University
Website: http://writingprogram.emory.edu/index.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: Tutors and Mellon Public Writing Fellowships
Description: WAE is a conversation among peers, people who care that they do not merely become routine performers in a classroom. We cross the boundary from routine (that daily hard asphalt of reading, assigning, assessing) to examining our practices, our values, and the intersections with our students. We delight in strolling over the boardwalk to new shores, exploring the whys and hows of our teaching.
Supported by the Mellon Humanities Ph.D. Interventions Project, the Emory Writing Program will award two graduate Mellon Public Writing Fellowships for 2020-2021 to advanced graduate students interested in community engagement and public scholarship. MPW fellows will work 15-20 hours per week for between 16 and 18 weeks with a partnering community organization during the fall semester and early spring semester before returning to campus to engage in dissemination (teaching/tutoring/presenting) activities for the remainder of the academic year. Fellows will receive a stipend of $23,250, along with the Graduate School’s health insurance subsidy for the academic year. Travel costs to the organization site will be covered.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Lex Hackney: writingcenter@emory.edu
School: George Mason University
Website: https://wac.gmu.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Faculty Writers Community
Description: Mason’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program recognizes that writing is central to academic life and student success. This core value informs our program mission and the projects we undertake with our cross-campus network of partners. Our integrated approach facilitates Mason’s campus-wide culture of writing through the following program goals: Promote writing as a tool for learning and critical thinking; Support the teaching of writing across the curriculum; Advise departments on writing curriculum and faculty development; Research and assess writing and teaching with writing in the disciplines; Support faculty writing and research productivity.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Thomas Polk: tpolk2@gmu.edu
School: Governors State University
Website: https://www.govst.edu/wac/
Fellows Name/Synonym: The Writing Fellows (undergraduate and graduate), and Embedded Peer Tutors
Description: The Writing Fellows Program is an embedded peer tutoring approach that aims to support students in a particular instructor's course. The program trains Fellows, both undergraduate and graduate students from English and other disciplines, to work with professors in order to support students' writing. Fellows attend classes, meet with instructors, and meet with students one-to-one and in small groups. They excel at helping students with revision, reading drafts and providing students with feedback about how to better achieve the assignment's goals. They also conduct in-class and out-of-class workshops, crafting material and activities to meet the specific goals of the course in consultation with instructors.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Kerri Morris: kmorris2@govst.edu
School: Grand Valley State University
Website: https://www.gvsu.edu/wc/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Center Consultant
Description: Consultants help writers think about how they might revise their writing. This means that consultants read student papers, or have students read them aloud. Consultants ask questions about those papers to help students clarify their focus, organize their writing, and support their ideas. Consultants assist students in identifying problem areas of grammar and punctuation. Because consultants are not teachers or editors, they don't grade or fix student papers. Rather, they ask questions and give feedback to students toward improving their writing.
Compensation: $10.85/hour (undergrads) and $12.75/hour (grads)
Contact: Lisa Gullo: gullol@gvsu.edu or Patrick Johnson: johpatri@gvsu.edu
School: Hampden-Sydney College
Website: rhetoricstudio.hsc.edu
Fellows Name/Synonym: Description: Not stated
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Sean Gleason: sgleason@hsc.edu
School: James Madison University
Website: https://www.jmu.edu/uwc/opportunities/consulting.shtml
https://www.jmu.edu/uwc/opportunities/embedded-consultants.shtml
Fellows Name/Synonym: Course-Embedded Consultants
Description: James Madison University's Course-Embedded Consultant program pairs experienced graduate and undergraduate writing consultants with courses in a variety of disciplines. In these classes, the embedded consultants help lead peer-review workshops, deliver mini-lessons, hold individual student conferences, collaborate on assignment and rubric design, and execute other initiatives to support writing development in that course. Consultants act as liaisons between professors and students but hold no grading responsibilities. Students, in particular, value the peer interaction, increased feedback, and unique perspective a seasoned writing consultant can provide. Simultaneously, the consultants support instructors with their knowledge of writing assignments, writing processes, and student writing development to enrich the instructor's pedagogy. This dynamic exchange between multiple classroom authorities boosts the level of writing instruction within the classroom and benefits both instructors and students by fostering better habits of mind for effective writing.
Compensation: $10 per hour for a 40 hour per semester workload ($400 total).
Contact: Rodolfo Barrett: barretrl@jmu.edu
School: Lafayette College
Website: https://cwp.lafayette.edu/about-writing-associates/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Associates Program
Description: Undergraduate Writing Associates (WAs) provide informed and intelligent readings of work-in-progress to help students formulate and answer difficult questions about their own writing. WAs work exclusively with one professor on a specified course for a full semester. Typically, responsibility is limited to 15 to 20 students. WAs also participate weekly in staff meetings.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: J. Christian Tatu: tatuj@lafayette.edu
School: Lehigh University
Website: https://trac.web.lehigh.edu/content/trac-writing-fellows-program
Fellows Name/Synonym: TRAC Writing Fellows
Description: The TRAC Writing Fellows at Lehigh are undergraduate students who provide peer support for student writers in courses across the disciplines. They also provide assistance with library and database research and new educational technologies. Additionally, TRAC fellows work proactively with faculty to promote a student-centered culture of learning. Each semester, 80-85 fellows work with over 1,000 students (both undergraduate and graduate) in courses across all three colleges (Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering). New fellows (30) are recruited each spring and trained in 4-credit, team-taught seminar offered in two sections (each with 15 fellows) the following fall. Ongoing training is provided through a peer-coaching process, workshops, and regular staff meetings.
Compensation: $600/semester for first-year fellows; $700/semester for second-year; $800/semester for third-year fellows. $1,500 for "Mentor Fellows" (seniors with at least two years of experience who participate actively in program leadership and management).
Contact: Greg Skutches: grs206@lehigh.edu
School: Madison Area Technical College
Website: https://madisoncollege.edu/writing-center
Fellows Name/Synonym: Peer Tutor
Description: The Writing Center's mission is to help members of the Madison College community become more effective, confident and successful communicators. Must complete English 2: Peer Tutoring and Writing and becoming a Madison College Peer Tutor! You will experience both traditional classroom learning as well as hands-on learning in the Writing Center.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Sarah Z. Johnson: szjohnson@madisoncollege.edu or: writingcenter@madisoncollege.edu
School: Marquette University
Website: https://www.marquette.edu/writing-center/index.php
Fellows Name/Synonym: Tutors and Writing Groups for Faculty
Description: Our graduate and undergraduate tutors work with graduate students at all stages of their academic work: first-year MA students writing seminar papers to post-docs working on articles for publication. We work with writers at any stage of the writing process to understand new genres of writing, organize and explain complex material, incorporate and document sources effectively, develop conference posters and presentations, prepare a manuscript for submission, and much more.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Rebeca Nowacek: rebecca.nowacek@marquette.edu
School: Merrimack College
Website: https://www.merrimack.edu/academics/academic-success-center/writing_center/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultants, Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Center guides the exploration of words and ideas through activities from brainstorming and drafting to revision and editing. We assist students as they discover more about audience, thesis, essay organization and paragraph development. Students enhance their understanding about forms and genres of writing for professional, academic and personal audiences through explorations in style and structure.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Robert T. Koch, Jr.: kochr@merrimack.edu or: WritingCenter@merrimack.edu
School: Moravian College
Website: https://www.moravian.edu/writing/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Moravian College Writing Fellows
Description: Writing Fellows are undergraduate, course-embedded tutors who play a part in supporting the writing development and academic success of their peers at Moravian. Writing Fellows work with all First-Year Writing courses and many writing-intensive and writing-enriched courses across academic disciplines. By combining knowledge of writing studies, training in writing center pedagogies, and campus experience, Writing Fellows are well-equipped to make a real difference in writing development for students.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Meg Mikovits: mikovitsm@moravian.edu
School: Nazarbayev University
Website: https://shsswritingcenter.wixsite.com/writingcenterprogram
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Undergraduate Writing Fellows Program brings together talented undergraduate writers and dedicated faculty members to improve student writing in a variety of disciplines and to establish a culture of writing and revision at Nazarbayev University. This three-semester fellowship prepares students across all majors to serve as undergraduate peer writing tutors, or Writing Fellows, who in turn work with other students to help them become better writers through dialog and collaboration.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Karie Pieczynski: Karie.pieczynski@nu.edu.kz
School: North Park University, Chicago
Website: https://www.northpark.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/academic-assistance/writing-center/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Advisors/undergraduate and graduate tutors
Description: Writing Advisors (WAs) provide free assistance to the university community through our drop-in center, one-on-one conferencing, and specialized workshops for all students enrolled in writing courses through North Park's Chicago and Stateville Correctional Center campuses. These undergraduate and graduate writing tutors are trained to respect the intellectual work and linguistic roots of all students, cultivate writing as a process and promote healthy, coordinated habits for writing and learning while providing a brave space where passion for language can be celebrated.
Compensation: Undergraduate WAs are paid at the student worker rate of $10.50 hour
Contact: Melissa Pavlik: mpavlik@northpark.edu
School: Northwestern University
Website: https://www.writing.northwestern.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Undergraduate Consultants, and Graduate Assistant or Fellow
Description: The responsibilities of Writing Place Undergraduate Consultants include: One-on-one consulting: assisting writers from the Northwestern community at any stage of the writing process, on topics from any discipline, through face-to-face and distance sessions; Content and program development: developing resources and programs for Writing Place staff, clients, and other writers in the university; Professional development: participating in staff meetings and other professional development as provided and proactively continuing to learn more about writing and to fill in gaps in your knowledge.
Both Graduate Writing Fellows and the GA will work one-on-one with graduate students from across the university to respond to their writing in progress and to coach them in principles of expression, argumentation, and organization. Moreover, the Fellows and GA will draw on their own disciplinary expertise and interests to help develop workshops, events, and resources that cater to both broad and specific graduate student audiences.
Compensation: Starting: $13.00 per hour. Fellows earn a $3000 stipend, which augments funding they are already receiving from their home departments and programs. The GA earns a full stipend, equivalent to what they would receive from their home departments.
Contact: Barbara Shwom: bshwom@northwestern.edu
School: Ohio State University
Website: https://cstw.osu.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Associates
Description: The Writing Associates Program is a Writing Across the Curriculum initiative that partners an instructor of a writing-intensive course with an undergraduate writing tutor (the WAs).
These partnerships offer an opportunity for curricular development, as the WAs work with the instructor over the course of the whole semester. Because the WAs are trained in writing pedagogy and peer tutoring, they represent a dynamic resource for writing instructors teaching at any level of the curriculum.
Compensation: $9-$10 an hour depending on experience (WAs average about 3-5 hours a week per collaboration, up to two a semester).
Contact: Chris Manion: manion.12@osu.edu
School: Oregon State University
Website: https://wic.oregonstate.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Intensive Curriculum Program
Description: The Writing Intensive Curriculum Program supports and instructs faculty across the disciplines who are developing and teaching writing intensive courses as part of OSU's Baccalaureate Core requirements. Through faculty seminars, lunches, departmental consulting, review of course proposals, and the newsletter Teaching with Writing, WIC promotes excellence in writing and fosters a culture of writing at Oregon State University. The annual WIC Faculty Seminar focuses on learning best practices for teaching writing across the disciplines. Designed for faculty teaching WIC courses and faculty using writing in non-WIC courses, the seminar is appropriate for all faculty who are interested in improving student learning through writing.
Oregon State requires students to take a WIC course in their major, and every major must offer at least one such course. (Some majors have more than one, and a handful of majors have several.)
Compensation: Faculty receive $500 for completing the WIC faculty seminar.
Contact: Sarah Perrault: sarah.perrault@oregonstate.edu
School: Pittsburg State University
Website: https://www.pittstate.edu/office/writing-across-curriculum/index.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program
Description: The mission of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program is to encourage and support faculty in the incorporation of writing and writing assignments in their courses at all levels and across all disciplines. The WAC program supports faculty by offering regular professional development opportunities in designing writing assignments, developing tools for writing assessment, and offering feedback on student writing. In addition, the WAC program contributes to the University’s overall mission of providing programs and services that create opportunities for students to develop intellectually through its oversight of Writing to Learn (WL) courses and support of WL faculty.
Compensation: $250 stipend per WL class if an instructor meets our WL Best Practices. This is available to all WL instructors.
Contact: Jessica Jorgenson Borchert: jjorgenson@pittstate.edu
School:
Princeton University
Website: https://writing.princeton.edu/about/teaching-opportunities/writing-center
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Center Fellows
Description: The Writing Center offers 50 and 80-minute one-on-one conferences for students working on papers across the curriculum at any stage in the process. Trained Writing Fellows, who are undergraduates and graduate student, can help with: brainstorming ideas, developing a thesis, structuring an argument, or revising a draft. The goal of each conference is to develop strategies that encourage students to become astute readers and critics of their own work. Writing Center conferences complement, but do not replace, the relationships students have with their teachers and advisors. All Writing Center appointments are confidential.
Compensation: Undergraduates: The position is “Grade I” on the student pay scale ($15).
Graduate Students: The hourly wage is $20.
Contact: Gen Creedon: gcreedon@princeton.edu
School: San Diego State University
Website: https://rhetoric.sdsu.edu/employment/writing_fellows.htm
Fellows Name/Synonym: Rhetoric and Writing Fellows
Description: The mission of SDSU’s RWS Writing Fellows Program is to empower students to become critical and reflective writers through an enriched collaborative learning experience. The program embeds successful undergraduate and graduate writers (Fellows) to Rhetoric and/or Linguistic courses, where they develop effective pedagogical practices through the mentorship of their assigned instructors. This gives students additional support inside and outside the classroom, which in turn helps them gain confidence in their own academic skills. The collective efforts of instructors, Fellows, and students help build effective lifelong learning practices.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Emma Lee Whitworth or Lea Baker: rwswritingfellowsprogram@sdsu.edu
School: San José State University
Website: https://www.sjsu.edu/writingcenter
Fellows Name/Synonym
Course-Embedded Tutors
Description
If you are a faculty member teaching a writing-intensive course, you can apply for a course-embedded tutor. Course-embedded writing tutors are a form of supplemental instruction, and they are a valuable resource for your students throughout the writing process. They are more skilled and knowledgeable than their peers—they are fully trained and supported by the Writing Center and the Writing Across the Curriculum program—and they work five hours per week exclusively with your students.
Compensation
$16.00/hour to $19.00/hour
Contact
Michelle Hager: michelle.hager@sjsu.edu
School: Scripps College
Website: https://www.scrippscollege.edu/departments/writing-program/writing-center
Fellows Name/Synonym: Peer Tutor
Description: We Help: Unpack or figure out assignment prompts; Test out ideas; Organize and clarify thoughts; Iron out or strengthen thesis statements; Determine whether a point needs development; Go over revisions; Teach proper documentation; Improve editing skills
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Glenn Simshaw: glenn.simshaw@scrippscollege.edu
School: Simon Fraser University
Website: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/slc/about-slc
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing and Learning Peers/Consultants
Description: Launched in Fall 2006, the Student Learning Commons (SLC) is an academic writing and learning centre with the mandate to assist and support students in their academic pursuits. The Student Learning Commons (SLC) offers expert and friendly help with academic writing, learning, and study strategies -- in an environment of collaboration, discussion, and peer learning. Writing and Learning Peer Educators are student volunteers who help their fellow students in learning strategies -- such as study skills, note-taking, time management, and exam preparation -- and a variety of academic writing strategies. The Writing and Learning Peers provide strategies and resources to help students revise their own work. Peers will not edit, proofread, correct, or “check” students' work. Peers do not provide tutoring on course content. They will not give answers or opinions about content, ideas, or specific wording for assignments.
Compensation: Writing and Learning Peers are volunteers. In their second and subsequent semesters of work they are eligible for a $450 honorarium.
Contact: Julia Lane: jhlane@sfu.ca or: learning-commons@sfu.ca
School: Saint John’s University
Website
University Writing Center
https://www.stjohns.edu/resources/places/university-writing-center
Writing Across Communities
https://www.stjohns.edu/resources/places/writing-across-communities
Fellows Name/Synonym
University Writing Center Consultants, and Writing Across Communities Coordinators
Description
All University Writing Center sessions between consultants and writers emphasize collaboration. Rather than "fixing" or "correcting" papers, consultants engage in conversation to spur the writer's self-reflection and critical thinking about techniques for planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Together, they discuss and practice strategies for navigating the writing process, foregrounding the writer's active role in finding expression for their ideas. We offer three types of sessions: face-to-face, online, and e-tutoring. Each session lasts a full hour. In the first forty-five minutes, the writer collaborates with a consultant, and in the last fifteen, the consultant produces a client report form that summarizes what was achieved in the session. Face-to-face sessions are conducted in person at the University Writing Center. Online appointments are live sessions that allow the writer to interact with a consultant through a chat interface. E-tutoring allows the writer to upload their document and have it returned with comments and suggestions. Online and e-tutoring sessions are particularly suitable options for distance-learning students and commuters.
Writing Across Communities at St. John’s University encourages and supports faculty and students who strive to use writing to sustain diverse academic, cultural, civic, and professional communities across and beyond the university.
Compensation
Hourly pay: $15.50 (Work Study or Non-Work Study)
Contact
Kathleen Lubey: lubeyk@stjohns.edu or Anne Ellen Geller: gellera@stjohns.edu
School: Saint Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
Website: https://www.stlawu.edu/library/word-studio
Fellows Name/Synonym: Tutors
Description: Communication Culture: We exist to support a vibrant communication skills culture on campus. We are part of SLU’s robust effort to graduate the strongest possible communicators to thrive in a 21st century world of complex communication environments. Peer learning: We believe in the theory of peer learning: that students have as much to learn from each other as they do from their professors. This is why all of our tutors are undergraduates themselves. Peers can be excellent resources for each other, and the WORD Studio puts this educational theory into practice. Equity and Inclusion: Our staff is committed not just to supporting diversity, but equity. We are an explicitly anti-oppressive space: we are trained to see how oppression—especially linguistic discrimination--operates in our space, and how to address it and transform our space into a more supportive and inclusive one. Self-efficacy: We train students to train themselves as great communicators. Our tutors give students just enough instruction so that students can “leave the nest” and have full agency as learners. We are here to build your long-term skills, not just work on students’ short-term assignments. Compassion: We are a staff trained in the emotional dimension of instruction: we understand that learning new skills is as much an emotional process as it is cognitive. All of our instruction is informed by emotional intelligence so we can support the whole student.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Lucia Pawlowski: lpawlowski@stlawu.edu
School: Saint Mary’s College of California
Website: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/center-for-writing-across-the-curriculum
Fellows Name/Synonym: WAC Fellowships
Description: At the Center for Writing Across the Curriculum (CWAC), we offer guidance and resources to enhance writing eloquence throughout St. Mary's College of California. Pursuing the construction and expression of knowledge through shared inquiry, we are guided by the Burkean Parlor model of collaborative dialogue. We advise students and faculty through one-to-one sessions or small groups, in person or online, and through collaborative workshops for diverse disciplines. We award and publish excellent student art and writing. We facilitate regular, structured, small-group Writing Circles for both students and faculty. We offer faculty development workshops to guide the sharing of ideas among peers who are teaching Writing in the Disciplines courses. We mentor faculty in best practices to construct or enhance their WID courses. By supporting faculty and students, we help writers enter more fully into the scholarly dialogue, sharpening their skills, building their confidence, and connecting writing strategies across contexts.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Tereza Joy Kramer: tjk2@stmarys-ca.edu
School: Swarthmore College
Website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/writing/writing-associate-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym
Writing Associate Fellows
Description
The Writing Associate Fellowship Program selects and educates students to be peer mentors of writing. WAs collaborate with students during all stages of the writing process and in various disciplines. They work in conjunction with courses, and they staff the Writing Center during afternoons and evenings. The purpose of the program is to teach the Writing Associates how to engage with their peers in constructive dialogue about works in progress, how to reflect on their own development as writers and mentors, and how to listen to and communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
Compensation
Writing Associates receive a fellowship stipend for their work as embedded course tutors and are paid hourly for their work in the Writing Center.
Contact
Joanne Mullin: writing@swarthmore.edu
School: Texas Tech University
Website: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/writing-fellows/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Writing Fellows are undergraduates who assist faculty members in courses that involve writing. The students who serve as Writing Fellows are skilled writers who have demonstrated an enthusiasm for thinking and learning about the writing process as well as a commitment to helping their peers. They undergo a full semester of training in a rigorous seminar, in which they read recent work from composition studies, practice commenting on student drafts, conduct original research on writers and writing, and reflect on their own experiences as writers and tutors. The goals of the Writing Fellows Program are to improve student writing and writing processes, to promote collaborative learning, and to encourage instructors to use writing to learn in their courses.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Kathleen Gillis: kathleen.gillis@ttu.edu
School: Tufts University
Website: https://students.tufts.edu/staar-center/writing-support
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Writing fellows are Tufts’ undergraduate writing tutors. They are assigned to specific courses and work with the same students on drafts of several writing assignments throughout the semester. Writing fellows read drafts of papers in advance of meeting with student writers, then talk with the writers about their process and goals, asking questions to help them make decisions about revising their papers.
Compensation: $650 per semester to begin, with opportunities for additional compensation after the first semester.
Contact: Kristina Aikens: Kristina.Aikens@tufts.edu
School: University of California, Davis
Website: https://writing.ucdavis.edu/wac
Fellows Name/Synonym
Graduate Writing Fellows, and Faculty and Graduate Student Consultants
Description
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Graduate Writing Fellows offer one-on-one writing consultations with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, host writing retreats, create and lead workshops, and run the Graduate Certificate in Writing Theory and Practice and the Writing Partner Program. Our fellows come from degree programs across campus. All fellows receive training in WAC theory and practice through monthly professional development meetings with WAC faculty. Within the WAC program, there are both faculty and graduate student consultants. The faculty hold consultations with other faculty and lead workshops for faculty and graduate students. They also offer teaching workshops for TAs on topics such as commenting on student writing, grading papers or lab reports, and leading class discussions.
Compensation
$3000 per academic year for GWFs; $400 per graduate student workshop for faculty; course release for faculty for consultations with faculty/TAs
Contact: Kathie Gossett: kegossett@ucdavis.edu
School: University of Delaware
Website: https://sites.udel.edu/honors/writing-fellows/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: Writing Fellows are a dedicated group of undergraduates who assist their peers with developing and improving their writing skills. Central to their mission is the belief that writing is a process. As such, Writing Fellows continually strive to learn new and creative ways of writing and tutoring, while also respecting the individual approaches students and professors employ in their own work.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Ray Peters: rpeters@udel.edu
School: University of Georgia
Website: https://ctl.uga.edu/faculty/faculty-fellows-programs/writing-fellows/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows program was established in 2007 by the Office of the Vice President of Instruction. A group of up to twelve faculty are selected as Writing Fellows each academic year. The Fellows meet regularly throughout the year to discuss the most effective ways to teach and to respond to student writing, studying research that substantiates the best practices for helping students develop as writers.
Compensation: Each Writing Fellow receives a $1,000 stipend to subsidize projects aimed at constructing courses, resources, or initiatives that will support student writing at UGA.
Contact: Ruth Poproski: ruth.poproski@uga.edu
School: University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Website: http://blog.hawaii.edu/mentoring/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Mentors
Description: The Mentoring Program at UHM places English graduate students in first-year writing classrooms. The primary goals for the program are: To provide students with extra support in their development as writers, as well as in their transition to UHM; To give mentors the opportunity to be mentored by experienced composition teachers; To provide experienced and dedicated composition teachers with some support.
Compensation: Half UHM tuition waiver (excluding student fees) for Fall and Spring semesters
Stipend of approximately $9,465 per year
Contact: Sarah Allen: sallen3@hawaii.edu
School: University of Iowa
Website
https://writingcenter.uiowa.edu/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Honors Writing Fellows
Description: The Honors Writing Fellows Program is a peer tutoring/writing across the curriculum initiative. Writing Fellows are undergraduate students in the Honors at Iowa Program who are assigned to courses across the disciplines to provide feedback to students on first drafts of writing assignments.
Compensation: $700 per semester for first-year fellows. $800 per semester, second year and after.
Contact: Carol Severino: carol-severino@uiowa.edu or Megan Knight: megan-knight@uiowa.edu.
School: University of Kansas
Website: http://writing.ku.edu/writing-fellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows, and Writing Center Consultants
Description: Writing Fellows (WFs) are undergraduate students who are trained as peer writing consultants and who are paired with a specific course for the entire semester. They collaborate with faculty and serve as facilitators of learning, largely in part by providing constructive critique of student writing, but also through in-class workshops and facilitated peer review sessions. WFs neither teach content nor assign grades—they are not teaching assistants. Instead, they promote writing in the classroom, collaborating with faculty and helping students better understand writing assignments, brainstorm content, and revise drafts to successfully present their thoughts and ideas.
KU Writing Center consultants are graduate and undergraduate students who have experience as writers working with writers. Both undergraduate and graduate writing consultants work at the KU Writing Center. Consultants are peer writing tutors. They meet one-on-one with students, faculty, and staff to discuss writing projects in a wide variety of disciplines and genres. They work effectively with multilingual writers. They act as sounding boards for writers as they brainstorm their ideas; help them learn strategies for researching, drafting, organizing, revising and editing; and direct them to writing resources. They provide feedback to writers face-to-face, via e-mail, and via video conference at any point in the writing process.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Kara Kynion: kmkynion@ku.edu
School: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Website: https://www.umbc.edu/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Center Tutor
Description: Students interested in becoming Writing Center tutors may submit materials to the Writing Center Director. Interested candidates must include a letter of recommendation (preferably from a college professor) and a writing sample. The Director will first contact students for an interview, then grant permission for students to take ENGL 321, a 4-credit course that teaches aspects of identity in writing, writing center theory and practice, and peer tutoring methods. While taking the course, students work as interns in the Writing Center. After successfully completing the course, students are hired by the ASC as paid writing tutors. Students may also take additional tutor training through the ASC’s nationally recognized CRLA Tutor Certification Program. All ASC tutors must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Elaine MacDougall: efick1@umbc.edu
School: Dartmouth College
Website: https://students.dartmouth.edu/rwit/writing-assistance-program/about-program
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Assistants
Description: The Writing Assistance Program (WAP) is a feature of Dartmouth’s peer tutoring center, RWIT. Writing Assistants are trained undergraduate tutors who are paired with writing-intensive courses, providing students written feedback, face-to-face consultations, and other support on drafts of course projects. Faculty may request a Writing Assistant for any undergraduate course. Inviting a Writing Assistant to collaborate in the teaching of writing will make guided revision a central part of your students’ learning experience, provide students with more personalized feedback, and encourage students to access the supportive peer resources at RWIT throughout their careers at Dartmouth
Writing Assistants are full-time, undergraduate students, who have worked in the RWIT Center as tutors. These sophomores, juniors, and seniors have passed through a rigorous hiring process, completed a month-long, new-tutor education program, and completed at least one full term of tutoring in the center. Writing Assistants harness this training and their own backgrounds as writers and learners in order to collaborate with faculty and support students within the framework of a Dartmouth course.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Nicholas B.Van Kley: Nicholas.B.Van.Kley@dartmouth.edu
School: University of Michigan
Website: https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/m-write/mwrite-undergraduate-fellows-program.html
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/fellows-seminar.html
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/instructors/fellows-seminar.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: M-Write Fellows
Fellows Seminar: Junior and Senior Fellows
Description M-Write Fellows are students who were highly successful in the specific M-Write course the previous year (or term) and who were nominated by the faculty member who teaches the course. Those selected to be Writing Fellows are responsible for helping students understand the required prompts, peer review, and revision. They provide support with the automated peer review technology, and, in many cases, assist with research related to M-Write.
The Fellows Seminar brings together graduate student instructors (Junior Fellows) and faculty (Senior Fellows) from multiple disciplines who share a commitment to integrating writing in their courses. All seminar participants share an interest in helping students become better writers; integrating writing in their courses; and discussing critical issues in the teaching of writing with colleagues.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Sweetland: sweetlandinfo@umich.edu
School: University of North Georgia
Website: https://ung.edu/center-teaching-learning-leadership/teaching-and-learning/wac/writing-fellows.php
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows strive to foster a writing-to-learn environment by emphasizing process over product and focusing on higher order issues, such as organization, content, and clarity. By providing written and verbal feedback, we assist students in improving the quality of their writing for lasting success both in and out of the classroom.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Jim Shimkus: jim.shimkus@ung.edu
School: University of Richmond
Website: https://writing.richmond.edu/consultants/index.html
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultants
Description: Many writing consultants serve in the Writing Center through our online appointment calendar, while others are assigned to specific courses and instructors. When assigned to a course, the writing consultant's main responsibility is to provide appropriate written commentary on a student's rough draft and to meet the student in a brief writing conference to provide feedback and helpful writing tips.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Joe Essid: jessid@richmond.edu
School: University of the Pacific
Website: http://pacificwritingcenter.weebly.com/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultants, and Classroom-Based Writing Mentors
Description: Writing can be a stressful task, but the Writing Center is here to support University of the Pacific students in their writing endeavors. We assist with any kind of writing project at any stage of the process. Our trained undergraduate writing mentors, graduate writing mentors, and professional staff members offer personalized insights and advice during one-on-one writing consultations. Sessions are free of charge and typically last 30 to 60 minutes.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Molly Rentscher: mrentscher@pacific.edu
School: University of Rhode Island
Website: https://web.uri.edu/graduate-writing-center/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultants, and Graduate Peer Writing Tutors
Description: Our peer writing tutors are graduate students and writing professionals from across the University who have been trained to work collaboratively with student writers. Tutors provide graduate students with support at any stage of their writing process. Our tutors help with everything from brainstorming to revision for all types of projects.
Compensation: $26.37 - $28.05 per hour (depending on educational level)
Contact: Carolyn Decker: gradwritingcenter@etal.uri.edu
School: University of Santa Barbara
Website: https://writing.ucsb.edu/academics/raab
Fellows Name/Synonym
Raab Writing Fellows, and Charles Bazerman Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Professional Writing Development
Description: The Raab Writing Fellows Program in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara supports a select group of UCSB undergraduates in year-long projects to further their engagement with writing. The program develops the academic and professional writing of students via one-on-one work with Writing Program faculty. Moreover, students have the opportunity to collaborate with the cohort of other Raab Writing Fellows, building a strong bond and writing network for their activities at UCSB and beyond. Students present their work at a final showcase in toward the end of spring quarter.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Madeleine Sorapure: sorapure@writing.ucsb.edu
School: University of Texas at El Paso
Website: https://www.utep.edu/uwc/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Consultants and Writing Fellows
Description: The University of Texas at El Paso’s University Writing Center (UWC) focuses on helping First Year to Ph.D. students from all disciplines to better understand the rhetorical choices writers make in order to be effective communicators and writers. Moreover, the UWC works with faculty across campus to create and integrate effective multi-modal writing assignments into their classes and to use the UWC’s resources and tutors in enhancing students’ writing experiences. The UWC adapts pedagogies and methods to reflect professors’ course content and to highlight our collaborative approach to writing.
Compensation: Undergraduate starting pay is $8.25 per hour and .25 hour raise after a year of good performance. MA and PhD students working at the UWC are paid a salary and that is based on the department that houses their TA or AI contract, ranging from $10k per year to $22k per year.
Contact: Lou Herman: laherman@utep.edu
School: University of Toronto
Fellows Name/Synonym: Teaching Assistants
Description: Writing-Integrated Teaching (WIT) is an award-winning Arts & Science program that helps instructors and academic units embed discipline-specific writing instruction into undergraduate courses and programs. WIT facilitates: Development of writing goals for students at both the course and undergraduate-program level; Creation of assignments that support student writing development; Discussion on how to incorporate writing-to-learn (low-stakes writing) into courses; Mentorship and training for course TAs that contribute to teaching of undergraduate writing.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Andrea Williams: al.williams@utoronto.ca
School: University of Wisconsin
Website: https://writing.wisc.edu/writingfellows/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Undergraduate Writing Fellows
Description: The Undergraduate Writing Fellows Program brings talented undergraduates and committed faculty together in a cooperative effort to improve student writing. The program prepares selected students from a wide range of majors to serve as peer writing tutors, called Writing Fellows. Fellows work closely with professors and students on writing in a variety of courses across the College of Letters and Science. The program enables accomplished and enthusiastic student writers to share their writing skills and intellectual curiosity with other undergraduates.
Compensation: Writing Fellows receive a $1000 scholarship per semester.
Contact: Emily Hall: ebhall@wisc.edu
School: Utah State University
Website: https://www.usu.edu/writingfellows/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows
Description: The Writing Fellows (WF) program is made of up high-achieving students who are nominated to the program by their professors because of their excellent writing skills. The Writing Fellows are assigned to work each semester with courses where there are writing assignments. The students in the course are required to turn in each writing assignment to a Writing Fellow, who reads and critiques the assignment and meets in a one-on-one conference with the student to discuss it. Students can make revisions on their paper before handing in the final assignment to the professor for a grade. The program affords improved writing skills for both the WF and the students. Many WFs have used this experience to seek graduate degrees and further excel in professional careers where written communication is important. Professors benefit from this program because they receive much-improved writing assignments where they can focus on grading the content.
Compensation: WFs receive a $750 stipend for their services each semester for approximately 40-45 hours of work.
Contact: Lezlie Christensen-Branum: lezlie.branum@usu.edu
School: Valdosta State University
Website: https://www.valdosta.edu/asc/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Embedded Tutors
Description: The Academic Support Center provides core course support in several ways: one-on-one tutoring by appt. (Writing, Math, Sciences, Languages); Group tutoring led by tutors embedded in historically difficult core courses, and success workshops covering topics such as "Making Faculty your Ally," "Time/Role Management," "Test Taking Skills" "Personal Finance. All tutors attend regular training led by Mentor Tutors. Writing tutors attend regular training with the Director. To support our fully online students, the ASC also employs the online tutoring vendor, ThinkingStorm, available to all VSU students 24/7, and can further help with advanced courses beyond the core. Appt. based writing tutors are trained to help students with any writing project. Embedded tutors in core English courses work closely with the instructor to provide specific support for that course.
Compensation: $10.00 per hour
Contact: Chere Peguesse: cpeguess@valdosta.edu
School: Washington University in St. Louis
Website: https://writingcenter.wustl.edu/writing/
Fellows Name/Synonym: Undergraduate Peer Tutor, and Graduate Writing Fellows
Description: Our work is student-centered and collaborative. We are not affiliated with any specific class or department but instead respect and value students’ ownership of their own work and ideas. Our goal is to help students achieve their goals by strengthening and clarifying their own thinking, which helps them to strengthen and clarify their writing and speaking. For AY 2020-2021, The Writing Center is offering three Writing Fellowships designed to contribute to fellows’ professional development while also supporting their dissertation efforts. This opportunity is open to all doctoral students, provided they are at or near the dissertation-writing stage. Writing fellows will receive training and experience in the pedagogy of one-on-one writing instruction, learn about effective writing workshop design and execution, and have the chance to design and deliver their own workshops. They will also learn how to translate their Writing Center training and experience into various classroom settings and situations. Their work will be supervised by Rob Patterson, director of The Writing Center, and require a commitment of approximately six hours per week.
Compensation: $1750 per semester for Grad Fellows
Contact: Robert Hakan Patterson: rhpatter@wustl.edu
School: West Point
Website: http://www.usma.edu/academics/curriculum/west-point-writing-program/writing-fellows-program
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows, and Senior Writing Fellows
Description: Established in 2012, the Writing Fellows Program supports cadets and faculty as they research, experiment with, and ultimately contribute to high-level conversations about writing and communication. Our mission is to explore how all of us can perform more imaginatively and effectively as scholars, teachers, and professionals across the disciplines.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Jason Hoppe: jasonhoppe@gmail.com
School: Western Carolina University
Website: https://www.wcu.edu/learn/academic-success/tutoring-services/faculty-toolbox/writing-fellows.aspx
Fellows Name/Synonym: Writing Fellows, and Writing Tutors
Description: Writing Tutors may be requested by WCU faculty members or selected by the WaLC director and associate director to act as a Writing Fellow. Writing Fellows are carefully selected and trained peer tutors who address undergraduate writing needs by providing focused support in classes where faculty assign at least two academic papers. Writing Fellows are assigned to faculty members who have requested assistance with responding to student writing. Fellows work closely with 12-15 students, reading drafts of their papers; writing thorough end notes; and holding individual, thirty-minute conferences to discuss revision strategies. Fellows are expected to exercise discretion, good judgment, and professionalism when addressing the individual needs of each writer; Fellows treat their peers’ work with respect and confidentiality. Fellows also serve as peer mentors, demonstrating strong critical thinking and communication skills.
Compensation: Amount not stated
Contact: Mattie Davenport: mrdavenport@wcu.edu
School: Yale University
Website: https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/McDougalTeachingFellows
Fellows Name/Synonym: Teaching Fellows
Description: The McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellows at the Poorvu Center lead programs on effective and innovative teaching, develop teaching resources, and provide individual consultations for graduate student instructors at Yale. The Poorvu Center emphasizes teamwork as well as individual participation. This group of approximately 20 doctoral graduate students facilitate a wide array of programming, including Teaching at Yale Day for first-time teaching fellows, discipline-specific Fundamentals of Teaching workshops, and advanced teaching workshops. Graduate Fellows work within their own departments or disciplines and across disciplines.
Compensation: Fellows receive training, a shared office, and a $5,000 honorarium for the academic year.
Contact: Suzanne Young: suzanne.young@yale.edu