Undergraduate writing tutors Julianna Herriot (BA/MA Creative Writing) and Kyli Ramsay (Secondary Ed-English, minor in English) both presented at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) in Pittsburgh last weekend.

Julianna presented the project, “Building Bridges through Multimodal Tutoring: An Analysis of Penn State’s Asynchronous Tutoring Model.” Her project explored the ways PSU’s model for asynchronous tutoring works to confirm best practices for collaborative learning and face-to-face tutoring by using both text and video comments. Kyli co-led a workshop with writing center advisor Beth Parfitt, titled “The Dangling Modifier: Bridging Writing Center Scholarship with the Public World.” Kyli’s workshop re-launched The Dangling Modifier as a national online publication “For Peer Tutors, By Peer Tutors.”  The Dangling Modifier was originally created by Ron Maxwell in 1994 when Penn State writing tutors returned from the NCPTW conference and wanted to “continue the conversation.” Kyli redesigned the website in an effort to return to this original mission, make the site more accessible, and break down barriers to publication for undergraduate students. In addition, Julianna won an NCPTW Travel Award and Kyli won the Pittsburgh Tribune Total Media Travel Award.