Do the WRITE thing

This post is brought to you by: The Edison Writing Center, where there's more than one write way to tutor papers. The Edison Writing Center (here on forth known as the EWC) is a student organization that "strives to create an atmosphere of approachable peer tutors in order to maximize achievement and success in all aspects and disciplines of student writing". So basically what we do is tutor anything that is written.

Me in one of my many EWC apparel

EWC Tutors must take Advanced Composition to be able to tutor during school hours. I take it during third block every other day. So during third block kids generally come down with an assignment they are working on and get tutored during their lunches. The "tutee" gets tutored for about 20 minutes. They also have the option of coming after school on Wednesdays. What many people don't know is that in between the lunches we have "class time" where we basically work on writing assignments that are atypical to an English class. For example we did a huge original research paper on "Writing in the Disciplines" (I choose to do mine on business writing, it ended up being about 22 pages, yikes!) and more recently we have done business letters and restaurant reviews (maybe I'll post that up.)

I really enjoy the class because it's very laid back. Ms. Pizzazz (who is in charge of the EWC) is the teacher for Advanced Comp. and she doesn't hound you to do your work. If you aren't a good time manager this can come and bite you in the butt! But if you are good at time management than you are free to do whatever you need to do (like play bananagrams!) Plus it helps that we tutors are all super close and good friends. Our class is super smart and we have really great class discussions. You have to go through a long application process to be a tutor so we have a lot of bright minds in the class that actually want to be in class.

Some Writing Center Tutors at the EWC's 2nd Birthday in early February.

Tutoring in itself is pretty fun. I mean every once in a while I will get an unresponsive tutee and there's a lot of normal writers. The best part though is when you get a tutee that has a powerful writing voice with a unique writing style and idiosyncratic diction that makes a strong writing piece. I love tutoring those types of tutees even though I get nervous because I know that my writing skills are no where near theirs. It's still pretty nice getting to see people's different writing styles and get to know them better. Oh, by the way, today I completed my tenth hour of tutoring! Yay! The means I have had...30 tutoring sessions!

This may easily be one of my favorite classes and while I am not going to be taking Advanced Composition 2 next year I'm definitely coming back for Senior year.