There are different types of resume styles, chronological and functional. The first is self explanatory , but the second is about organizing things in terms of how they function in relation to a certain job. Physical resumes should be no longer than a page, but digital ones don't have that restriction. Resumes should be organized in a way such that it includes these categories: contact info, career objective, summary of qualifications, education, work experience, and capabilities. Add a headline to summarize your information, and definitely include a photo. References are also important to have. Also using nouns instead of verbs when describing your positions is useful. I think the this reading has a lot of good tips to making a resume easier to write, and it's hard to not just recommend the entire thing. If I had to choose one thing as the most important takeaway from it all, I would have to say the visual examples that can probably be used as templates for writing my own ...
Hitt talks about how to make accessibility better in writing centers. A few methods proposed are working to make the design layout work for universal accessibility, in terms of physical disability, and also making it work in terms of mental disability. O'Leary talks about gender in the writing center. It focused on knowing which interactions worked where, and how gender can come into play when trying to tutor in the writing center. Nan focusses on how to tutor better with the English learners. Being direct, noticing body language, and other non verbal cues, and being transparent are all suggestions about how to improve tutoring with ELL students. I think it's fascinating to think about how different cultures use non verbal cues, like hand gestures, to communicate, and seeing that implemented in the writing center would be cool. Would it require extra training on the consultants' behalf to learn these new skills? Or is it something they just pick up over time working?