Writing Center job

ECU University Writing Center is currently seeking Writing Consultants. If you are a naturally curious person and like learning from and with people across campus, consider becoming a writing consultant for Summer Session 1. We welcome applicants from all academic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. All we require is a willingness to learn and that you have successfully completed ENGL 1100. Graduate students who completed their writing requirements at other institutions are also welcomed to apply.

A position at the ECU University Writing Center (UWC) offers you the opportunity to:
• Work with and learn from writers across disciplines;
• Strengthen your own writing and research skills; and,
• Present at and publish in the field of writing centers.

Writing Consultants work with ECU students, faculty, and staff to support writers with any type of writing at any point in the writing process through consultation and material development.

In addition to working with writers, consultants answer email, schedule appointments, design and provide workshops, and work on professional development projects. Projects include efforts to better their understanding of writing and the writing process and tasks that expand and support the work of the UWC.

Essential Job Responsibilities:
A. Giving feedback to students, teachers, and staff on any type of writing at any point in the writing process via one-on-one writing consultations.
B. Promoting the UWC in online settings
C. Responding to the UWC Email
D. Completing weekly professional development
E. Attending weekly staff meetings
F. Attending weekly individual check-ins.
G. Attending a pre-semester orientation
H. Other duties and professional development as assigned

Consulting:
We employ a facilitative approach in which the writer always retains control over both the form and content of the paper. Consultants specialize in guiding writers to work on higher order concerns such as assignment goals, clear focus, thesis development, organization, audience awareness, and content development. Consultants also possess skills and resources to teach writers how to address lower order writing concerns including sentence structure, style, word choice, and punctuation. Consultants may work with writers either online through online chats or e-tutoring within the Online Writing Lab (OWL). Additionally, consultants may work with writers face-to-face at our Joyner and Laupus Locations.

Professional Development:
During down time consultants will work on professional development and projects that encourage reflection and further learning about writing center work. Writing center work and projects take precedence over consultant’s coursework and personal work while a consultant is working.

Shift Journals:
We use shift journals as a form of professional development to document consultant’s growth. Each consultant will be given a digital shift journal, which includes weekly professional development expectations and self-assessment activities.

Preferred Qualifications:
Successful completion of in ENGL 1100; and/or enrollment in ENGL 2201. Completion of at least 12 credits of study at ECU or another post-secondary institution.

Minimum Qualifications:
a. A successful completion of ENGL 1100.
b. 2.0 cumulative GPA

Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with a broad range of diverse peoples, abilities, cultures, and ethnic backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships within the writing center and across campus.
• Ability to take initiative and self-direct learning, while also collaborate with peers and ECU writers.

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