Graduate ESL Writing Consultant

Job Requirements:
Writing consultants play animportant role in writing education at Duquesne. They meet individually or insmall groups with students to help them with writing from all stages of theirwriting processes from brainstorming to consultantsprovide advice and suggestions for a range of writing tasks and concerns fromdeveloping thesis statements to citing and integrating WritingCenter offers a teaching not a proofreading goal is to teachwriters how to improve rather than to edit for them. See the Centers website for furtherdescription of the Centers services.

The ESL (English as a SecondLanguage) writing consultant is the go to consultant for non-native speakersof English though also works with the full range of students who visit theWriting working with ESL writers is desirable but notrequired. Tutoring or teaching experience particularly of writing is likewisedesirable. Training is addition to an orientation one hour everyother week is spent at professional development meetings that provide ongoingtraining.

The position currently pays $18/hour and is funded for 715 hours per week.

Applicants must be full-timestudents in a for-credit degree program and cannot be concurrently workinganother job at Duquesne. Hourly staff members use the time management softwareKronos UKG to log in and out at the beginning and end of shifts. Applicationsare being accepted immediately and will be processed as they are received.

Contact Person Dr. Jim Purdy ContactPhone

Contact Email

Additional information ifany:
Tutoring hours are based on theconsultants availability and the Writing Centers coverage needs.

All applicants are asked to submit

• an online application form available at résumé/cv
• an academic research-based writing sample.
• Applicants are asked to combine #2and #3 into one PDF file to upload with their application.

Required Experience:

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