The crocuses are peeping through the dusting of snow on the leaf litter. We’ve officially had spring break at Waynesburg University, and the fickle weather has finally settled into the beginning of mud season in Western Pennsylvania. April’s poems and May’s celebrations are rapidly approaching. So, it is that time of year again—the time of year I look for new Writing Center tutors!
The Waynesburg University Writing Center is hiring writing tutors for the 2026-2027 academic year. I am looking for four new tutors to join our experienced team next fall. What are good qualities for tutors? They must be kind, good listeners, curious and self-disciplined. They must love helping people, enjoy writing in some form and struggle with writing sometimes too.
Current tutors in the Writing Center are Stover and Bonner scholars, consistent Dean’s list students and student athletes with a variety of majors. A strong GPA is required to work in the center.
Among other occasional tasks, Monday through Thursday, the tutors primarily help other students develop their writing skills. They help to interpret assignment prompts, brainstorm topics, develop outlines, examine resource validity, walk through citation and style guide requirements, discuss developing paragraphs and incorporating source information, discuss concise wording and sentence construction, provide guidance to enhance descriptive writing, improve clarity in lab reports and give impromptu lessons on punctuation and grammar when needed.
Writing Center tutors make their own schedules each semester based on their availability: Some tutors work three hours a week; some work up to the 14 hours a week maximum. All are trained in tutoring techniques, writing genres and style guides, closed captioning skills and writing center philosophy.
Interested students should email me: sscott@waynesburg.edu. Before we sit down for an interview, I will ask you to send me a sample research paper, a sample writing piece of any genre and the name of an instructor who would be a reference for you. Also, students interested in becoming a tutor must make an appointment with a current tutor if they have not already experienced a Writing Center session this year.
The Writing Center is a group committed to supporting the community of writers at Waynesburg University. I am looking forward to our group growing again this spring!
