Whether you just graduated a few years ago or worked for us back in the early 2000’s, we want to hear from you! The CLC Writing Center will be celebrating its 40th birthday soon, and we’re hoping to commemorate this milestone year in several ways.
Continue reading “Summer 2025 CLC Tutor Alumni Survey”Reflecting on the DePaul Writing Center Event – Pt. 3
This is part three of our series where the peer tutors who attended the DePaul Writing Center’s dinner party on Friday, February 21, 2025 reflect on their experience. Keep reading below to learn more about peer tutor Jasmine’s experience.
Jasmine E. – Peer Writing Tutor Fall 24 Cohort
I was very fortunate to be able to attend the Chicago Writing Centers Dinner Party at the University of DePaul. At this event there were many other tutors from schools like Lewis University, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), North Park University, Loyola University, and DePaul University.
The event started with an activity named Tutor Bingo where we were given a sheet with boxes that had personality traits, and we had to find someone from a different school other than our own to sign their name on that trait. This activity was more like a game since there was a prize if you filled out every box (I won a prize). The game gave us the chance to warm up to each other in a fun and competitive way while meeting and conversing with tutors from all of those other schools. I had even more of a chance to conversate with tutors who sat at my table. These tutors were from the schools Lewis University, UIC, and Depaul.
Continue reading “Reflecting on the DePaul Writing Center Event – Pt. 3”Reflecting on the DePaul Writing Center Event – Pt. 2
This is part two of our series where the peer tutors who attended the DePaul Writing Center’s dinner party on Friday, February 21, 2025. Keep reading below to learn more about peer tutor Juan Jose’s experience.
Juan Jose G-T – Peer Writing Tutor Fall 24 Cohort
The Chicagoland Writing Center Dinner Party was an incredible opportunity to connect with tutors from universities across the Chicago area. College of Lake County was the only community college at the event, and this gave us a unique chance to engage in rich conversations with peers from four-year institutions and compare our experiences. I felt truly privileged to be surrounded by such skilled writers, and the casual, relaxed environment allowed us to discuss our work openly and learn from each other.
Reflecting on the DePaul Writing Center Event – Pt. 1
The folks over at the DePaul Writing Center (Susie’s old stomping grounds) recently hosted a dinner party for peer and professional writing tutors in the Chicagoland area. Dr. Staben, the Writing Faculty Coordinator, and three of our new peer tutors had the privilege of attending the event and being the only ones representing a community college at the event. Keep on reading below to learn more about peer tutor Noelle’s experience.
Noelle C. – Peer Writing Tutor Fall 24 Cohort
The Chicagoland Writing Center Dinner Party was an inviting and casual way to meet writers, tutors, and teachers from several universities in the area. The College of Lake County representatives were the only community college attendees, and comparing our work to that of four-year university writing centers brought valuable insight into a longstanding, complex conversation.
Meet Our New Peer Writing Tutors – Part 2
Meet Andie, Morgan, Jose, and Michael! They are four more of the 14 new CLC student tutors who joined our staff in the Writing Center this fall. As part of our Peer Writing Tutor Program, they are taking a 3-credit English class, English 260 (Intro to Writing Center Theory and Practice) while they work their first semester as writing tutors.
Continue reading “Meet Our New Peer Writing Tutors – Part 2”Meet Our New Peer Writing Tutors – Part 1
This fall 14 new CLC student tutors joined our staff in the Writing Center. As part of our Peer Writing Tutor Program, they are taking a 3-credit English class, English 260 (Intro to Writing Center Theory and Practice) this fall while they work their first semester as writing tutors. Meet Alex, Juan Jose, Jacqueline, Xiomara, and Noelle!
Continue reading “Meet Our New Peer Writing Tutors – Part 1”Hello (again!)
Happy fall semester all! My name is Susie Mendez, and I’m the new(-ish) Writing Coordinator in the Tutoring Center. I’ve been in this role since February 2024. I want to take the time at the start of the new semester and school year to introduce myself to you all.
I am a CLC native; I went straight to CLC out of high school because I knew I wanted to get a degree in something, but I didn’t know what that was straight out of high school. I knew CLC was a good place for me to feel things out. I initially signed up to pursue a career in mortuary sciences, but I quickly changed career paths after taking my first creative writing course. At the end of the semester, my instructor recommended the whole class to apply to be writing tutors, and that one decision changed the course of my education and career for the better.
Continue reading “Hello (again!)”Meet the New Peer Writing Tutors – Part 1
Back in June, we interviewed over 30 students for our Peer Writing Tutor Program. Though our Fall 2022 cohort is smaller than usual, our staff of ten new writing tutors is already mighty. They have been working in the Writing Center since August while also taking English 260 (Intro to Writing Center Theory & Practice), our tutor development course.
Please meet four of our new tutors as well as our the new Tutoring Coordinator for the Writing Center.
Why Be a Peer Writing Tutor?
Here are some responses to that question from our current staff.
Greta S. started as a writing tutor in 2016 and has continued to work in the writing center since she graduated from CLC. She plans to start at Lake Forest College this fall.
When Your Puzzle Is Missing Pieces
By Jessica Gach
I cannot start thinking about my 16-week journey in ENG 260 and the Writing Center sixteen weeks ago. That is not enough. I need to start when my journey really started and no, I am not talking about the fall of 1988, when I started kindergarten. This journey started on January 19, 2021.
When I started my Legal Research and Writing course, I had no idea what I was getting into. At this point I had only written a handful of papers since graduating high school 20 years prior, and this was LEGAL writing which I had no experience in or even any idea what it was. Throughout the semester, I learned how different legal writing was versus English 121 writing and I loved it. It was research based; it wasn’t based on creativity or even my own opinion. It was based on fact, on historical cases and current cases, and current events. I felt like I found a part of myself (a puzzle piece if you will) in this class that I didn’t know was missing.
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Voices from the CLC Writing Center 