Writing center

It's just the EAC and our first year experience at the table, working collaboratively with them.

Career services, you know, adding Handshake, adding vMock as platforms for our students, adding software for the Writing Center.

You know, it had been in the English department, but now you're part of this bigger umbrella, adding the WC Online Writing Center software that's usually used that allow the uploading of papers and the asynchronous appointments with tutors and such.

And so it was really an opportunity to relook.

And I think that helped in the buy-in too, is kind of like that all the parts of the Eagle Achievement Center were able to be better by this growth together.

But is this a practical solution to promote critical thinking and original work, or does it ignore the technology that students will encounter everywhere else anyway? In this episode of the pod, we'll sit down with a pair of participating professors and a student who supports the approach.

At the table with Sherrie Weller, a professor in the English department and writing program at Loyola University Chicago, Brandi-Ann Mulby, who's professor and director of the writing center at Loyola, and Ella Paris, who's a first-year undergraduate student at Loyola.

To kick things off, I asked Professor Weller to tell us about the class they're both teaching.

Here she is.

All right.

Sherrie Weller is Professor of English at Loyola University.

She works in the writing center along with, uh, Brandi-Anne Mulby, who's also a professor and director of that writing center, and Ella Paris is a first-year student at Loyola.

Thank you all so much.

Dateline Galena, Illinois.

Galena Area Writing Center will again host a series of Fear Forest events in October.

Shenandoah Writing Center will hold the events beginning October 9th and 10th at the center, 200 North Broadrick Road, according to her press release.

Doors open at 7 PM.

Additional dates are October 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, and 30th.

Yeah.

So really, that is the human dimension rather than, in inverted commas, the technical dimension of the chat box that is probably the differentiating feature of what you're doing or what you have done and the approach of the Harvard Writing Center.

so.

I mean, and of course, you know, we were going long before there was a chat GPT or anything like that.

There's a very diverse population at Harvard.

Not everyone comes in with the same writing backgrounds.

You know, people is we can we talk about the writing center, we can talk about how many, you know, lots of people came looking for help.

At the same time, the Harvard Crimson has published some surveys about how many students are using chat GPT.