UW-Madison Writing Center

In this week’s Another Word blog post, “On Being Cringe: Hospitable Tutoring and Caring Too Much,” Izzy Alexander (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) acknowledges that “Writing is embarrassing work.” As a first-year writing consultant, Alexander has landed on a persona of being the cringiest person in the room, viewing tutoring as hospitality work and cringe as a method to alleviate the embarrassment that accompanies writing. “But by exposing that we as writing consultants care deeply about the tutoring situation—by being a bit cringeworthy—,” she writes, “we might achieve our goal of making students feel at home in their writing.” Read more here: https://go.wisc.edu/13dvgn.

In their blog post "How to Discuss GenAI in Writing Consultations,” Brady Hall and Emma Bapst (Miami University of Ohio) presents questions for writing consultants to reflect on their experiences discussing GenAI, introduces frameworks to aid in these discussions, and relays some consultant experiences from a 2026 writing center conference. "We hope this will help consultants feel better prepared to address GenAI use in consultations,” they write, especially in "a manner that supports effective, ethical, and developmentally appropriate use."

Read more on Another Word: https://go.wisc.edu/03j5wv.