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This was created in the spring of 2021 for a new frontier the Writing Center had been involved in: giving advice to creative writing students. Rather than giving hyperspecific genre-based advice (e.g. ‘develop a strong setting’), I chose to use experiences from my personal life to prompt ideas of how students could get over the … Read more Getting Started with Creative Writing Assignments

This PowerPoint was delivered to a freshman seminar for a Writing Center class visit where I was asked to introduce students to peer revision and to the Chicago Manual of Style. I made a copy of the peer revision PowerPoint without the Chicago portions for more general classroom use by other consultants in the future.

This was written as a printout guide to the UMW Writing Center in spring 2022 after I ran into several students who had trouble with analyzing poetry in their general education classes. It is intended to be sent to students who are struggling as well as being used as reference material by peer tutors.