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Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Consultants and Tutors

Undergraduate students who have taken WRT 353, a 3-credit tutor training course called "Issues and Methods in Writing Consultancy" are eligible to apply to become tutors in one of four locations:

Tutoring in the Writing Center

In the URI Writing Center, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students tutor side by side, and collaborate on research projects about writing. In addition to each person's set tutoring schedule, weekly staff meetings are mandatory.

• Dr. Jeremiah Dyehouse, Director
• Cathryn Molloy, Assistant Director
• Angie Abbe, undergraduate student
• Amanda Algarin, undergraduate student
• Tim Amidon, graduate student
• Laurie Carlson, graduate student
• Caitlin Cudworth, undergraduate student
• Ludy Gonzalez, undergraduate student
• Rose Greene-Smith, graduate student
• Mihaela Harper, graduate student
• Stephen Marchand, graduate student
• Nicole Myers, graduate student
• Sarah Payne, undergraduate student
• Angela Raup, undergraduate student
• Alyson Stein, undergraduate student
• Kate Stone, undergraduate student
• Laura Tetrault, undergraduate student
• Katie Walsh, undergraduate student
• Jess Watson, undergraduate student

Discipline-Specific Writing Consultants

Undergraduate Writing Consultants focus their tutoring efforts on writing for specific disciplines. In some cases, Writing Consultants are attached to a particular course and instructor, and work closely with the students in that class. In other cases, Writing Consultants work on writing assessment and other writing-centered research projects for various disciplines.

• Dr. Libby Miles, Supervisor
• Josh Aromin, Philosophy
• Tina Bacci, College of Business
• Samantha Cummings, Library Science
• Anastasia Miller, Communication Studies
• Jill McGlinchy, Communication Studies
• Justin Mockler, Computer Science
• Alexa Quill, Women's Studies
• El Venskas, English
• Jess Watson, College of Business
• Patricia Weisenseel, Communication Studies

Tutoring at the Providence Campus

Eligible and interested students can also work at our Allen Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education in Providence.

• Dr. Tamara Bolotow, Director of the Academic Skills Center
• Ray Dutra
• Jeremy Kollie
• Tatiana M. Uhoch

Tutoring at Central Falls High School, at URI Academy

URI has teamed up with Central Falls High School, in an effort to help prepare more of their students for college. URI undergraduates who have taken WRT 353 are eligible to become tutors during the summer pre-matriculation program (tutoring for WRT 100), or in the spring Dual Enrollment program (tutoring for WRT 104).

• Dr. Libby Miles, Director of Writing & Rhetoric
• Cathryn Molloy, Instructor for WRT 104
• Jeremy Kollie, Tutor for WRT 104

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Upcoming Events

What: Portfolio Pandemonium
Where: The Writing Center
Who: WRT students, writing center tutors, and faculty

What: ePortfolio Presentations
Where: Lippitt 402
Who: Colleagues, friends, and families of our graduating seniors