Meet the Staff
The Center for Writing Excellence is staffed by student writing consultants who are highly trained and come from majors across the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus, including professional writing, cinematic arts, English, biology, and more. All writing consultants are required to complete a training course that teaches writing and research processes, writing across disciplines, interpersonal communication skills, and office policies and protocols.
If you are interested in applying for a job at the Center, and if you have completed the general education writing sequence (EN 111-112 or EN 111H - 112H) at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ with at least a 3.0 average or above, go to the page and look for an opening.
Current Center for Writing Excellence Staff
| Major: English (Professional Writing) |
| Role: Writing Consultant (Certified) |
| Writing Strengths: Grammar, Word Choice, Tone/Clarity, APA Format |
| Biography: Rebekah is a senior studying professional writing, biology, and human studies. She is a member of the Cole Honors College and hopes to pursue higher education after completing her bachelor's degree. When not studying or working, Rebekah enjoys reading and baking. |
Lauren Butte
| Major: Professional Writing |
| Minor: Digital Marketing |
| Role: Writing Consultant (Certified) |
| Writing Strengths: Grammar, Structure, Word Choice, APA Format |
| Biography: Lauren is a senior studying professional writing. After she graduates, she plans to pursue a master of fine arts degree in creative writing, with the ultimate goal of becoming a professor and published novelist. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, strength training, and spending time surrounded by nature. |
| Major: Art |
| Role: Writing Consultant (Certified) |
| Writing Strengths: Outlines, Generating Ideas, Prewriting, Structure |
| Biography: Lee is a junior studying general arts. They are a member of the Cole Honors College and hope to pursue a job in library sciences. They enjoy creative writing, drawing, and playing the bass guitar in their free time. |
Manuela Ludolf
| Major: English/Professional Writing |
| Role: Writing Consultant (Certified) |
| Writing Strengths: Rhetorical Appeals, Adaptability to Different Style-Guides, Grammar |
| Biography: Manuela is a resident advisor, sports editor of The Flor-Ala, managerial editor for Flow Magazine, editor-in-chief of the Lights & Shadows literary journal, and English Club president. |
| Major: Cinematic Arts and Theater |
| Role: Writing Consultant (Certified) |
| Writing Strengths: Sentence and Paragraph Structure, Grammar, Word Choice |
| Biography: Summer is a freshman studying cinematic arts and theater with a concentration in film production. She is also a member of the Cole Honors College. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, and watching movies. |
| Role: Director |
| Biography: Dr. Richards has a master's degree in English literature from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and a doctorate degree in English composition and TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Richards has been teaching at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ for approximately twenty years. For the first couple of years as an adjunct English composition instructor, she often volunteered to work in writing centers as a tutor. While tutoring and teaching students in English composition, she became fascinated with writing centers and the support they provide students. Dr. Richards has been directing the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) for fourteen years. In order for the writing consultants at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ to be well trained, she initiated the Center Acknowledgment and Recognition of Excellence (CARE) program certification sponsored by the Southeastern Writing Center Association. Undergraduate and graduate students at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ can be assured that the writing consultants in the CWE have gone through extensive tutor training to assist students in writing across the disciplines. |