✍️ Position Summary
This role consists of facilitating the College of Education (COE) Doctoral Program writing goroup, which meets biweekly throughout each quarter. This writing group was developed for doctoral students in the COE so that they may have a community with which to workshop their writing, share resources, hold each other accountable, and more. You can find more information about the COE and their programs here and on their blog.
✨ Principle Duties & Responsibilities
Run group meetings to offer support to writers (70%)
- Provide a space to discuss common challenges and strategies for doctoral program writing
- Facilitate discussions that center around academic expectations, research design, genre conventions, writing challenges, the doctoral community, and so forth
- Collaboratively set an agenda for each meeting based on writers’ needs
- Help foster a constructive dialogue about writers’ work by asking questions and encouraging others to share feedback
- Provide a space for writers to check in with each other and build rapport
Work together to locate and share resources that may be helpful for doctoral students as they work on dissertations, class assignments, research, and more (20%)
- Assist participants in navigating the DePaul libraries, databases, and other research outlets
- Provide and demonstrate relevant tools such as reverse-outlining, mind-mapping, and color-coding notes
- Share other resources as necessary and help participants learn where to look for them
Perform other administrative and record-keeping duties (10%)
💯 Position Benefits
- Understand the vulnerability of sharing writing and seeking feedback in academic work, especially for writers who may be returning to academia after taking time off
- Learn best practices for working with dissertation-level writers and managing large-group meetings
- Understand and utilize a variety of strategies to effectively lead a team
- Develop and execute practical event-planning and public-speaking skills
🏆 Position Qualifications
- Interest in teaching or academic work preferred
- Prior experience working with (and/or as) graduate students or research writing preferred
🗓️ Hours/Schedule
We ask facilitators to commit to the role for one quarter with the opportunity to continue depending on the facilitators’ interest/availability and on the Writing Center’s needs.