Writing & Study Skills Center

Welcome to the Writing and Study Skills Center! We offer individual and group tutoring sessions to help students build the foundational skills they need to thrive in college and beyond. Our professional tutors can help you build strategies to become a better writer, reader, and student. All of our tutoring is free to UC Blue Ash students. To chat with a tutor, schedule a live session, or send in your work for feedback, please see below!

The Writing and Study Skills Center at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College empowers UCBA students across the disciplines to develop as writers, strategize their success, talk about texts, and connect to community. Our caring and experienced staff collaborate with students through individualized, student-centered, goal-driven and reflective sessions that are grounded in multi-disciplinary scholarship.

In our holistic approach to learning, we value open-mindedness, creative self-expression, collaboration, community, and reflection.

Ali Edwards graduated with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 2020. She holds minors in both English and Communication, as well as certificates in Creative Writing and Copyediting & Publishing. She has performed professionally as a singer, songwriter, and actress for over 30 years and is currently lending her writing and performing talents the band Ruby Vileos. Her poetry can be found in UCBA’s Blue Ash Review and UC’s Short Vine. Ali loves working with students and writers in an array of disciplines and most enjoys assisting writers of all competencies in capturing their unique vision onto the page.

Charles Gabel is a writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Boise State University, where he focused in poetry. He then worked for several years at the Cincinnati Public Library before coming to UCBA. At the Writing Center, Charles is especially excited to see creativity in all forms of writing.

Jordan Hubrich holds a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, both from the University of Kentucky. In addition to being a fiction writer, she has taught Writing & Rhetoric courses at the University of Kentucky and worked at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, where she led educational programs and helped create conservation-focused content and curricula. For her, writing is an important means of communication as well as a practice that can help us make sense of the world. She loves to work with students throughout their own unique writing and educational journeys.

Breen Reardon first began thinking about English education as a career many years ago as an undergraduate peer tutor at Youngstown State University. After a 33-year teaching career, the last 27 of which were spent at Sycamore High School in Cincinnati, he is excited to return to a tutoring position at the Writing and Study Skills Center at UCBA. Breen has an B.A. in English Education and an M.A. in English, and in addition to his high school teaching career has taught undergraduate English classes at Ohio University and Miami University. He believes that writing is thinking and that everyone is a writer!

Eric Van Hoose earned a bachelor's degree in English at UC, a master's in literature at Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in creative writing back here at UC. He loves storytelling of all kinds, especially fiction. His favorite thing about tutoring is working closely with students as they find their voices and discover new ways to share their ideas with the world.

• English & Communication Department
• Tutoring Form

Eric Van Hoose
Writing and Study Skills Center Manager
Muntz Hall 112K
513-558-9446
eric.vanhoose@uc.edu