Consultant Application

First name*

Last name*

Today's date*

OBU email*

OBU Box #*

Home mailing address*

We hire for the entire year; is there any chance you would only work one semester of an academic year?*

Yes

No

Your standing for the 2024-2025 academic year.*

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Overall GPA*(3.0 and above preferred)

Major*

Major GPA

Second major/minor (if applicable)

Second major/minor GPA

List two Ouachita professors, and their email addresses, who could be contacted for a recommendation; one from the Department of Language and Literature (not Jennifer Pittman) and one from a different department on campus.*

If hired, what are the chances you will stay with the Speer Writing Center until you graduate?*

Describe your interest(s) and passion(s).*

Why do you want to work/serve as a consultant in the Writing Center? *

Have you ever used the services offered by the Speer Writing Center? If so, what has been your experience? If not, why not*

How will being a consultant help in your career path? *

Please describe any previous customer service experience you have or any other experiences working with people in a workplace, volunteer, or classroom setting.*

Briefly detail other jobs, both on-campus and off, that you anticipate holding in the upcoming academic year.*

Explain prewriting techniques with which you’re familiar. *

Briefly detail your knowledge of English grammar. Have you taken Advanced Grammar (now called Traditional and Transformational Grammar) on OBU’s campus—how did you do?*

What courses have you taken from the Language & Literature Department? Other writing intensive courses on campus?*

List the style guides you are familiar with (MLA, APA, AP, Chicago, etc.). How willing are you to have a working knowledge of style guides other than that of your own discipline(s)?*

What makes you stressed? How do you handle it? *

How well do you work with others who have different beliefs and views from your own? Explain situations and experiences you’ve had in this area.*

Situational Response 1

Pretend you are working in the Writing Center and have the following interaction; explain how you would respond and why. A student enrolled in Comp I that you’ve worked with for a few sessions complains to you that your feedback isn’t helpful. The student explains that their professor often gives advice that contradicts yours, and then the student suggests sarcastically that perhaps you need a good writing consultant. Even worse, all of this happens when other Comp I students and multiple consultants are in the physical Writing Center—all of whom have heard everything and are waiting for you to respond.

How would you address the student’s concerns?*

Situational Response 2

Pretend you are working in the Writing Center and observe the following interaction; explain how you would respond and why. It’s about 10 minutes before your shift begins. One of your colleagues is having a heated exchange right outside the Writing Center. Five minutes later, your colleague clocks in to begin their shift although obviously stressed and clearly discombobulated. You’re worried about your colleague because this is the third time this semester something like this has happened right before their shift. You think that your colleague needs to take a breather and maybe even go for a walk, but their client arrives early.

What do you do? *

Please attach one writing sample of 3-5 pages of academic prose done for a class here at Ouachita Baptist University. Choose a sample that you feel reflects the best writing you have done to date. Here, list the class and professor for which the writing was done.*