Rate My Professor Derek Boczkowski

Derek Boczkowski is the Coordinator of The Writer's Studio at The Ohio State University at Newark campus. Funded through the English Department while serving all academic units, Dr. Boczkowski manages daily operations of the writing center, which provides tutoring, resources, and support for writing to students, faculty, and staff across disciplines. His responsibilities encompass making policy and practice decisions, overseeing record-keeping and statistics, budgeting time and resources, hiring, training, supervising, and mentoring Peer Writing Consultants, teaching tutor training courses such as English 3467S: Issues and Methods in Tutor Writing, and collaborating with faculty on writing-related initiatives. Through these efforts, he cultivates a supportive environment that enhances writers' abilities to identify strengths, address weaknesses, and refine their ideas collaboratively.

Dr. Boczkowski has contributed to the field of writing center pedagogy through presentations at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, including 'When Writing (and Teaching) Goes Public: Blogging and the Wall-less Classroom' in 2009, 'What Happens in Writing Tutorials: A Comparison of Peer-Tutoring and Professional-Tutoring Models' in 2010, and 'Contesting Relations in the Writing Center: Discourse and Power in Peer-Facilitated and Professional Tutoring' in 2011. He co-authored a collaborative essay with Ian Randall, Truly Render, and Sarah Sinovic in Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work, and conducted interviews for the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. At OSU Newark, he mentors student research, serving as faculty for Brenden Justice's first-place oral presentation 'Purpose Through Creativity: An Adventure in the Creative Space' at the 22nd Annual Research and Creative Inquiry Forum in 2026. His work advances writing instruction, peer tutoring practices, and literacy development in higher education.