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Writing Center
Sunderland 010
CPO 6114
Warren Wilson College
P.O. Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
828-771-3003 (ph)
Julie Wilson, Director
Email Julie
828-771-5899 (ph)
Welcome to the Writing Center!
Schedule an Appointment. If you have any trouble with our online schedule, call us at 828-771-3003.
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Our Work:
Through interdisciplinary tutoring and integration of the Triad, the Writing Center strengthens the liberal arts at Warren Wilson. Our offerings include the following:
- Laboratory-like setting where 25% of the student body come for peer support in composition and revision, and tutors develop workshops that reach each generation of first-years
- New Writing Fellows program that partners advanced undergraduates with faculty to strengthen writing instruction in the disciplines
- Publication of Auspex: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research
- Partnerships with Steadfast House, Literacy Council, and other community partners to carry out community writing projects
- Intellectually challenging work environment for exceptional students, with opportunities for undergraduate research
- Credited courses, one for writers (WRI 105: Weekly Writing Sessions) and one for tutors (WRI 208: Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing)
Staff Biographies:
Arayah: Peer Tutor & Office Manager
- Major: Political Science
- Tutoring specialties: Argumentative essays, organization of research, grammar, historical analysis, social science research, business plans, government/law analyses
- Class experience: Creative Writing, Composition, History, Post-colonial Literature, Grammar, American Government, Foreign Policy, Marketing, Business Law
- Favorite book: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Banana: Peer Tutor
- Major: Ornithology
- Tutoring specialties: Finding sources, analyzing audience, liminality
- Class experience: Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management, Environmental Policy and Political Theory, Subcultures
- Favorite car: Chevrolet Silverado
Drew: Writing Fellows Coordinator, Class of 2011
- Tutoring specialties: Sociology & Anthropology, Creative Writing, Literary analysis
- Class experience: Traditional Agriculture, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Sociology of Religion, Research Methods, Directed Research, 20th Century Literature, Creative Nonfiction
Emmy: Peer Tutor & First-Year Liaison
- Major: Creative Writing (Minor: Sociology/Anthropology)
- Tutoring specialties: Grammar, syntax, flow, structure, brainstorming and outlining
- Class experience: College Composition, Intro to Creative Writing, Archaeological Field Methods, Women in American History, Gender and Women's Studies, Romantic Poetry and Prose, Sociology, Poetry, Writing for the Media
- Favorite shark species: The great white, of course
Ilinca: Writing Fellows Coordinator & Peer Tutor
- Majors: Creative Writing and Gender and Women's Studies
- Tutoring specialties: Outlining, literary analysis, exegeses, creative writing, assorted gender studies assignments.
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Class experience: Creative Writing Intro, Poetry, Writing About Place; Feminist Thought, Gender and Social Change, Women's War Narratives, Gender, Development, and the Environment; Enlightenment, Literature by Women, Modernism, Linguistics.
- Favourite chip flavour: Salt and Vinegar
Julie: Director of Writing Center & College Composition
- Areas of study: English (BA). Education-Culture, Curriculum, and Change (MA & PhD).
- Publications: For Student Action with Farmworkers: 'I Could See Myself in Them': The Writing of Student Activists in the Farmworker Movement, 1995-2005. With Kimberly Abels, Kristal Moore Clemons, Autumn Winters, and Mahogany Woods: "'Here in this Place': Write On! of Durham, North Carolina" in Circulating Communities: The Strategies and Tactics of Community Publishing.
- Warren Wilson classes I teach: Weekly Writing Sessions; College Composition I: Incarceration in the US; Teaching Writing in Communities; Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing.
- Favorite books about teaching: Ready from Within. We Make the Road by Walking.
Malka: Peer Tutor & Auspex Editor
- Major: Creative Writing
- Tutoring specialties: Creative nonfiction, literary analysis, writing about film, brainstorming and outlining, grammar
- Class experience: Intro to Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Restoration Literature, Biology, Film, Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Psychology
- Favorite cat: All of them
Megan: Peer Tutor & Auspex Editor
- Major: Creative Writing
- Tutoring specialties: Narrative essays, literary analysis, brainstorming, outlining, structure
- Class experience: Gender and Women's Studies, College Composition, Poetry, Literature by Women, Western Civilization, various creative writing
- Favorite superwoman: Tina Fey