The Writing Center is committed to mentoring and providing support for all student employees during and after their transitions from the Writing Center into new opportunities.
As such, during your final quarter of employment at the Writing Center, the final quarterly check-in meeting will allow you and your assigned administrator to discuss and reflect on your experience at the Writing Center and how you might apply what you learned moving forward.
🗒️ What to Prepare
For the final quarter you work for us, you will prepare in advance of your check-in meeting with your assigned administrator the following items in an ePortfolio based on a template we provide:
- Your completed and documented quarterly goal
- Your completed reflection letter
What We’ll Cover in Your Final Check-in Meeting
During your final check-in meeting, you and an administrator will discuss
- Your completed and documented quarterly goal
- Your holistic reflections
- Your future plans
- Other relevant topics
🪞 Final Reflection Letter
(min. 750 words)
Addressed to your assigned admin for the quarter, your reflection letter asks you to reflect holistically on your journey as a tutor throughout your time at the Writing Center. As administrators, we are curious about your experiences in the Writing Center and what you will take with you into your next steps. To that end, we invite you to reflect on your entire time working for us—from your first quarter as a new tutor through your final quarter—and the various roles, initiatives, teams, and myriad tutoring experiences you’ve been a part of in that time.
We also know from conversations over the years with our alumni that having time and space to think about their work as a tutor as they transition to their future professional, educational, and personal lives is incredibly valuable and even practical. Your reflections here will likely help you further understand and represent your work in meaningful ways in jobs, graduate study, or any context where you are collaborating with others.
Your letter is one of your last invitations while you work with us to engage in our Writing Center’s core value of reflection. Your reflection letter allows you to name your experiences as an employee and practices as a tutor and to engage in critical thinking about how those experiences and practices are transferable to new contexts. Such critical thinking supports deep learning about how you’ve grown and developed—as a tutor, as a writer, as a student, as a person—in your time working the Writing Center. As you internalize what you’ve learned, you readily apply those skills, values, and abilities across other areas of your life.
We ask that you compose your reflection letter without the use of generative AI in order to engage in the critical thinking and deep learning offered to you. In addition, administrators value your voice as a writer and encourage you to write transparently and authentically based on your own thoughts, feelings, curiosities, and inquiries.
Please compose a reflection letter that describes your experience working at the Writing Center and responds to all of the following questions.
Reflecting on Your Tutoring Experience:
- How have you grown throughout your experience at the Writing Center?
- What are the most significant abilities, values, and/or skills that you developed in your work as a peer writing tutor? List them. Then, illustrate those that strike you as the most meaningful by sharing a tutoring or work-related experience that exemplifies how you developed the ability, skill, or value.
Connecting & Applying Your Tutoring Experience Beyond the Writing Center:
- How has your own writing been influenced by your experience as a writing tutor? Please explain.
- How did your Writing Center training and experiences help you as you developed as a university student?
- Based on what you know about your future plans now, how might your work and experiences at the Writing Center help you moving forward?