Meet the Staff
The Center for Writing Excellence is staffed by student writing consultants who are highly trained and come from majors across the campus, including education, English, history, and more. All writing consultants are required to attend a semester-length training course that teaches writing and research processes, writing across the 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 121-122) with at least a 3.0 average or above, log in to LionJobs and look for an opening.
Current Center for Writing Excellence Staff:
- Bri Palmer
- Mary Beth Willcoxon
- Rachel Morgan
- Mae-Lee Colwell-Shockley
- Rachel Sweigard
- Katie Spillman
- Laiken Mann
- Jordan Tolbert
- Monday Sanderson
- Jasmine Fleming
- Dr. Kathleen Richards
Bri Palmer
| Major(s): Film and Media Digital Production |
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| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: MLA and APA Formats, Revising, Editing, Organization |
| Biography: Bri is a junior at UNA. This is her second year working in the CWE. She is also a lab assistant in the communications department at UNA, and she holds the position of secretary in the UNA Film Club. She enjoys screenwriting, cinematography, and other aspects of filmmaking. After she graduates, she hopes to one day work in the film industry. |
Mary Beth Willcoxon
| Major(s): Digital Media and Animation |
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| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: Revision, Word Choice, Sentence Structure, Organization, Grammar |
| Biography: Mary Beth's favorite movie is The Princess Bride, and her favorite book is Howl's Moving Castle. She enjoys reading, writing, and drawing and is a member of the Art Club and the Disney Alumni Association. |
Rachel Morgan
| Major(s): Professional Writing Minor(s): Spanish and Digital Media Production |
| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: Organization, Brainstorming, Grammar |
| Biography: Rachel is a member of the Honor's Program at UNA. In her spare time, she likes to read and spend time with friends. She loves to listen to music by Fall Out Boy and All Time Low. After she graduates, she wants to go to graduate school and eventually teach at the college level. |
Mae-Lee Colwell-Shockley
| Major(s): English/Language Arts Minor: Art History |
| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: Outlining, Researching, Formatting, Revision, Brainstorming |
| Biography: Mae-Lee is a junior at UNA. She hopes to one day teach English at a Community College level. In her spare time she enjoys reading horror and crime novels, writing book reviews, and working on her novel that she will never finish. She is a member of the UNA Art Club and often spends time at the Wesley Foundation. |
Rachel Sweigard
| Major(s): English/Language Arts Secondary Education |
| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: Brainstorming, Organization, Formatting, Argumentation, Editing, Revising, Grammar |
| Biography: Rachel is a senior at UNA and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi honor societies and is actively involved in the Multicultural Club at UNA. Rachel plans to teach English/Language Arts at the middle or high school level upon graduation and hopes to pursue a graduate degree shortly thereafter. She enjoys medieval literature, modernist poetry, and works by diverse authors. Her favorite book is a tie between 1984 by George Orwell and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and her favorite poet is T.S. Eliot. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, spending time outdoors, and running. |
Katie Spillman
| Major(s): Social Work |
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| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: N/A |
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Biography: Katie is a Decatur, Alabama native where she grew up with her parents and two siblings. She is now a sophomore majoring in Social Work and hopes to one day work as a guidance counselor. In addition to working in the writing center, Katie also works at Collier Library. In her free time, she likes to curl up inside with a good movie and Chinese food. During the summer, she works as a SOAR Counselor, which is her favorite extracurricular activity. Katie also enjoys reading, writing, going to church, and visiting her two-year old niece. |
Laiken Mann
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| Role: Consultant |
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Jordan Tolbert
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| Role: Consultant |
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Monday Sanderson
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Jasmine Fleming
| Major(s): English/Professional Writing |
| Minor: Spanish |
| Role: Consultant |
| Strengths: AP and APA styles, planning, organization, revision, and grammar |
| Biography: Jasmine is a senior and a member of the honors program and Sigma Tau Delta honor society. She is also Editor-In-Chief of The Flor Ala, UNA's campus newspaper. Jasmine enjoys creative writing, particularly poetry and fiction, and she hopes to study writing further in a graduate program. Her dream career is to be a communications specialist by day and best-selling author by night, while also writing award-winning screenplays for future cinematic masterpieces. |
Dr. Kathleen Richards
| Role: Assistant Director |
| Biography: Dr. Richards has a Master's degree in British Literature from UNA and a Doctorate in English Composition and TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Richards has been teaching First Year Composition for approximately ten years and ESL courses for two years. For the first couple of years as an adjunct, part-time 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 work that they do for students. Dr. Richards has been directing the UNA Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) for four years. In order for the writing consultants at UNA to be the very best, she initiated the International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC), sponsored by the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). Students at UNA can be assured that the writing consultants in the CWE have gone through extensive tutor training and are fully capable of tutoring students in writing across the disciplines. |
Writing Center Hours
Spring & Fall
In-House Consultations:
Mon - Thurs: 9:00am-9:00pm
Fri: 9:00am-3:00pm
Online Consultations:
Mon - Thurs: 2:00pm-4:00pm & 6:00pm-8:00pm
Fri: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Summer I & II
(June and July Sessions)
Mon-Thurs: 12:00pm-5:00pm
(Check the CWE scheduling page at tutortrac.una.edu for availability.)
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