Writing Tutorial Services wishes to hire students&#151both graduates and undergraduates&#151who have shown ability and confidence on paper papers and who definitely are friendly and approachable whenever using other students. We’re searching particularly for college students who be capable of discuss others’ writing constructively in order to operate in small groups.

Nearly all WTS tutorials are suitable for classes apart from British. WTS would therefore prefer to encourage applications from students from a number of disciplines, particularly sciences and social sciences. And since students visiting WTS really are a broadly diverse group&#151in relation to ethnicity, nationality, religion, race, and gender&#151we encourage applications from individuals who be affected by it diversity.

Both graduated pupils and undergraduates at IU are asked to submit applications to WTS. Additionally, WTS solicits nominations from faculty people for undergraduate candidates as described below.

Undergraduate Peer Tutoring

Writing Tutorial Services Peer Tutors operate in the primary location of WTS (within the Learning Commons around the bottom floor from the Wells Library) along with the Briscoe, Forest, and Teter Academic Support Centers (ASCs). The ASCs operate from 7pm to 11pm Sunday through Thursday. All WTS tutors work a collection agenda for the semester that’s, they’ll be needed to operate exactly the same days and hrs every week throughout the semester.

Undergraduates may nominate themselves. WTS also solicits faculty nominations for peer tutor trainees each fall. Faculty people should watch Campus Mail each October for nomination forms, or they are able to submit nominations via e-mail, as described below. You can contact Jo Ann Vogt (javogt@indiana.edu ) for more information.

Eligibility

Students who’re freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in the present fall semester are qualified to get WTS peer tutors. Because training requires a full semester&#151and is provided only early in the year&#151seniors are ineligible.

Training

Peer Tutors must develop a 14-week training practicum held each spring semester and trained by Jo Ann Vogt. Students who effectively complete this training early in the year then join the WTS staff the next fall.

Working out practicum includes a weekly, 2-hour ending up in other new Peer Tutors yet another one to two hrs per week for all and eight hrs of tutoring (2 hrs each week) throughout the month of April. Purchase working out is $8.25 each hour.

Applications

Faculty people: To appoint students, send an e-mail message to Jo Ann Vogt (javogt@indiana.edu ). Include

1. your company name
2. your department
3. the program where the student was enrolled
4. the student’s name and e-mail address
5. the student’s year in class (seniors are ineligible due to the entire training program)
6. a brief statement from the student’s qualifications

If you like, you are able to download the nomination form like a Word document and give it back either by e-mail or perhaps in hardcopy. WTS also solicits nominations via campus mail each October. Faculty nominations is going to be reviewed after the very first Friday in November and selected candidates is going to be asked to use.

Students: To use to become WTS peer tutor, submit the next through the first Friday in November.

1. instructions of application outlining your writing experience as well as your curiosity about tutoring please incorporate your home telephone number and current email address
2. a resume, for those who have one
3. a writing sample (a paper from an IU course&#151any length), and
4. a brief letter of recommendation from an IU faculty member&#151this could be by means of an e-mail message delivered to Jo Ann Vogt at javogt@indiana.edu.

Submit written materials to:

Jo Ann Vogt, WTS Coordinator
CITL Writing Program
Wells Library E250
1320 East tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

Hrs

Individuals who effectively complete the spring-semester training practicum then tutor for WTS the next fall. They are able to be prepared to tutor between 5 and 10 hrs each week, dividing these hrs between WTS within the Wells Library and also the Academic Support Centers.

WTS is open 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday and 10am to 5pm Friday.

ASCs, in Briscoe, Forest, and Teter are open 7pm to 11pm, Sunday through Thursday.

All Peer Tutors are needed to operate a minumum of one late-night shift (that’s, until 11pm) every week.

Rates of pay

• learning spring semester: $8.25/hour
• tutoring at WTS in Wells Library: $9.25/hour
• tutoring at ASCs: $9.50/hour

The deadline for applications may be the first Friday in November. In the end application materials are reviewed, 10-20 students is going to be asked to interview in mid-November.

Graduate Tutoring

Writing Tutorial Services hires graduated pupils to operate per hour as tutors at WTS within the Learning Commons around the bottom floor from the Wells Library. Graduated pupils from the discipline or department at IU are qualified to try to get tutoring positions, and could hold positions as affiliate instructors within their home departments whilst being employed as tutors at WTS. Teaching or tutoring experience will obviously be looked at when applications are reviewed, and so will breadth of background within the subject matter by which candidates would feel at ease tutoring.

Applications

To try to get a situation like a WTS tutor, submit the next materials:

1. instructions of application describing any teaching or tutoring experience and listing the disciplines that you&#146d be preferred tutoring student writing
2. a resume or resume
3. an example of your academic writing the sample ought to be 3-5 pages lengthy and could be something written for any course or a part of a dissertation, thesis, or any other project.

Send this stuff to:

Jo Ann Vogt, WTS Coordinator
CITL Writing Program
Wells Library E250
1320 East tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

Applications are recognized on the ongoing basis. That need considering for any tutoring position for that fall semester, however, it&#146s better to sign up by early April from the preceding spring semester.

Hrs

Graduate tutors should be expecting to operate 10 hrs each week whatsoever WTS locations combined. Additionally for their tutoring hrs, all tutors are needed to sign up in five hrs of tutor training, conducted within the first week from the fall semester, and also to attend biweekly staff conferences through the semester. Tutors are anticipated to determine an every week tutoring schedule throughout the first week from the semester and also to maintain that schedule, working exactly the same days and hrs every week, through the remaining days from the semester. All tutors are needed to operate a minumum of one evening shift every week.

WTS hrs: 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday 10am to 5pm Friday.

Rates of pay

Tutors are compensated $12.50 each hour for that hrs they work on WTS, for tutor staff or training conferences, as well as for every other work they are doing for WTS.

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Writing Tutorial Services
Center for Innovative Learning and teaching
Wells Library Learning Commons, 1320 E. Tenth St. Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-6738
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