Editing Work
Client Report Forms
I tutored in the Reading and Writing Center, in the Williams RWC, and both in the Williams-Johnston building and the Strozier Library lab. I have worked in the RWC for the past year, starting in the Peer Tutoring class during Spring 2016 until now (Spring 2017). I will continue to work in the FSU RWC in summer and fall semesters this year as I pursue my Master's in English.
Students would make appointments with me and I would help them revise and edit their essays, as well as brainstorm new ideas and discuss writing tips. Students come to seek help at any stage in the writing process, but it is most common stage that students came to me in was the revising stage, which meant they had all or most of their rough draft completed. The appointments range from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and the students who come to the RWC are from a variety of fields and backgrounds.
During the Spring 2017 semester, I worked almost exclusively with registered student athletes who were taking the RWC class and met with me weekly to discuss and review their writing. A little over half of those appointments were hour long sessions, and the rest were 30 minutes long. We met every week and focused on their writing for English classes, although any writing assignments they had for any class were welcome to be brought in and discussed.
While working at the RWC, I helped edit vast and varied amount of work, ranging from things as simple as an email to an adviser, to the standard ENC1101 research papers, to chemistry reports, and even to an Engineering PhD candidate's research dissertation that was almost 100 pages long. This was wonderful, since it stretched my understanding of how writing works and forced me to find new ways to discuss writing with people who may have very little writing vocabulary.
Since I was helping students edit and revise their work, I do not have the tangible copies of their papers, but the client report forms we filed each week contain information concerning what was discussed and worked on in each session. Students generally came in with papers ranging about 1,200-1,600 words, and I usually had about 10-15 students every week. In total, I probably averaged about 12,000-24,000 words edited per week. I have listed my client report forms chronologically, from start date to end, and also broken it down between the different RWC sites, which can be accessed via the drop-down menu for this page in the header.