Three Mount Saint Mary College students recently presented at Cornell University’s 2024 Peer Tutor Writing Center Conference. Left to right, Mikayla Peccerillo of Newburgh, N.Y.; Julia Flynn of Naugatuck, Conn.; and Alexis Grippi of East Islip, N.Y.
Three Mount Saint Mary College students recently presented their talk “Expanding the Umbrella: How We Cover Neurodiverse Writers and Writers with Disabilities” at Cornell University’s 2024 Peer Tutor Writing Center Conference.
The students, all tutors at the Mount’s Writing Center, were Julia Flynn of Naugatuck, Conn.; Alexis Grippi of East Islip, N.Y.; and Mikayla Peccerillo of Newburgh, N.Y.
Flynn also presented a separate talk, “The Writing Center as a Location of Agency.”
The conference featured undergraduate and graduate writing tutors from around the region discussing the pressing issues, exciting innovations, practical interventions, and new ideas currently circulating in their campus’s writing center.
The Mount’s Writing Center, directed by Gina Evers, sponsors a variety of events for students throughout the year. The center’s tutors assist Mount students in all stages of the writing process, including brainstorming and organizing ideas; structuring sentences, paragraphs, and essays; strengthening argumentation; incorporating research; appropriate systems of citation; and improving grammar and style.