Student Spotlight: Rebekah Hayes

Rebekah Hayes is a TA and graduate student here at UNO. She completed her undergraduate degree in library science. She is currently working on a Service-Learning project between her Composition II class and two sixth-grade classrooms in La Vista. She has a rhetorical analysis of Superman’s first comic in the process of peer review for an academic journal, and she is one of the forces behind reviving the English Graduate Organization. In previous semesters, the writing center has benefited from her skills as an intern and peer tutor.

National Conference for Peer Tutoring in Writing

Hayes recently presented at the National Conference for Peer Tutoring in Writing. She found it great to be around people who are all equally excited about tutoring and writing center work. Hayes’s presentation was titled “Building Bridges between Writing and Research: Peer Tutors as Information Literacy.” Her presentation discussed library research techniques, how to teach source evaluation, and how to encourage clients to deeply engage with their research.

Service-Learning Project

Hayes is working with two sixth-grade classrooms in La Vista, and her Comp II students are giving them feedback as well as receiving feedback. At the end of the semester, they're going to publish what Hayes calls an “Intergenerational Academic Journal” to show that everybody’s voice matters. As they make their arguments, they'll be in conversation with each other. The journal will be archived in the Criss Library as well as the school library in La Vista.