Our next Tutor of the Week is Kylie ("Ky") Wojciechowski, a technical writing super senior with a minor in philosophy.
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| Ky Wojciechowski (Photo by Jamie Loubert) |
"Since beginning my work at the SVSU Writing Center in January 2013, I’ve completed more than 975 tutorial sessions – it’s my goal to complete 1,000 before I graduate with my bachelor’s degree in May. I had the uncommon opportunity to begin working at the SVSU Writing Center as a second-semester freshman, so there have been only 15 weeks out of the past 4 1/2 years where the Writing Center was not part of my daily life and thoughts. At some points along that timeline, it would be fair to posit that the Writing Center was my life; it seemed all-encompassing and, in actuality, probably was. From one of my first independent tutorial sessions that lasted 3 hours and required “rescuing” from a senior tutor to the dozen or so conference presentations I’ve delivered based on my research endeavors in venues across the country, from playing a small role in launching Michigan’s first Community Writing Center to developing a web-based resource about the changes made in the eighth edition of MLA that gained traction with instructors at SVSU and other universities around the state, from learning from senior and mentor tutors and later serving in those leadership roles myself, I’ve had an array of valuable experiences with the Writing Center, not the mention those from tutorial sessions themselves. Each student I work with teaches me something new, and – not to be cheesy, but – I can only hope to teach each of them something, too, in our conversations.
"Outside my work at the Center, I also serve as web editor of The Valley Vanguard (formerly a reporter, news editor, and editor-in-chief), the president of the Association of Professional & Technical Writers, a junior researcher in the SVSU Center for Usability Studies and Universal Design, and an information management co-op at The Dow Chemical Company. In the past, I was a member of the Leopold J. Kantzler Fellowship and the 16th class of the Roberts Fellowship. Beyond that (and less formally), I like watching the Food Network, listening to podcasts – Generation Why, Thinking Sideways, Sword & Scale, Stuff You Should Know, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, UXpod, 99% Invisible, the Peripheral, Serial, and so on – and playing with my dogs: a 9-year-old Boxer named Chance and a 4-year-old Shiba Inu/Labrador mix named Daffodil."
