Underwood International College

UIC Writing Center

Recruitment Announcement

The UIC Writing Center is hiring two writing tutors for the Spring 2018 semester.

We invite upper-classmen from all divisions and majors to apply!

The UIC Writing Center (Veritas Hall B) will launch in Fall 2018 in order to provide one-to-one writing support to UIC students, regardless of background or discipline, by experienced peer tutors, in two forms of writing assistance: Technical or Substantial. For students seeking technical help, tutors work with students on individual papers to point out sentence-level structural errors. For students seeking substantial help, tutors work with students on individual papers to develop and improve academic argumentation and structure.

Tutors are UIC upper-classmen who display exceptional writing skills and are passionate about helping other students with their writing. Students wishing to work as peer tutors at the Writing Center may (a) apply to become a peer tutor or (b) be nominated as a peer tutor by a UIC instructor. All candidates must submit an academic writing sample from a UIC course and sit through an interview with Professor Seunghei Clara Hong, the Director of the Writing Center.

Tutors are required to: (a) work during the semester; (b) attend training sessions; (c) attend meetings with the Director to report and address students’ progress and needs; and (d) hold sessions for a given number of hours per week with opportunities for additional hours (details forthcoming). Tutors will be awarded a UIC scholarship for the semester (please see “Note” below for details pertaining to Spring 2018).

Tutors do not: (a) teach course texts or content; (b) copy-edit or “fix” students’ writings;     (c) offer “answers” to writing assignments; (d) provide assistance with take-home exams. While tutors can discuss texts or content insofar as it pertains to improving a paper, all texts/content should be discussed with course instructors. Tutors can help students to see frequently made mistakes and self-correct, but cannot revise or re-write student work to be grammatically correct; likewise, tutors can suggest ways to approach an assignment, but cannot tell students what to write about.

APPLICATION

To apply, send a letter of application (about your writing, editing, teaching experience, approach to writing, and/or anything else you think relevant in no more than 250-words), current CV, and academic writing sample (edited to no more than 1,300-words) from a UIC course (preferably a UIC Seminar), to Professor Seunghei Clara Hong at uicwritingcenter@gmail.com. The application deadline is May 25, 2018. Students will be notified by May 28, and those accepted will be invited for an interview to be held on May 30, 2018 (in person or via Skype).

★NOTE:

The UIC Writing Center will be running a two-week Pilot Program in the Spring 2018 semester. Hired tutors will work provisionally from the last week of classes until final exams week in the Spring semester and officially throughout the semester in the Fall semester. Due to special circumstances of the pilot program, tutors will be paid a lump sum of 400,000-won for 6-hours of tutoring per week in the Spring semester. Starting in the Fall semester, all tutors will be awarded a UIC scholarship (amount TBD). Please address all questions to uicwritingcenter@gmail.com.