Knowledge of the Penguins
3 Articles. All right.
#1-Center Will Hold-Muriel Harris is the Writing Center God(dess).
Real #1-Cultural Studies Agenda
Cooper talks about making the session about the student and their writing. This is one of the ideas that I've really been trying to implement. Often, we don't get to the paper itself, because we spend time clarifying the assignment for the student and what he or she is writing on. I've found this to be really helpful, because even if we don't get to the paper, the student leaves with a more clear idea on the assignment and where they need to go with it.
#2-Lessons from Fannie
This article talks about the trouble of working with ESL students. The example given of Fannie and her tutor shows the problems that tutors working with ESL students can face, as well as cause. This is something that I try to avoid, and I think I do pretty well at it. Several ESL students do walk in expecting just a proofread or edit, and so we have to clarify what we do. Once the idea of our writing center is clear to the student, things go pretty smoothly. I also personally try to gauge what the student is worried about, or looking for, and we focus on that. In one case, I've started working on the rules of English with the student, going through it a step at a time to help her out.
#3-The Idea of a Writing Center
This one talks about what I harp on all the time. It discusses the idea of the writing center for the tutor and for the rest of the world. The common perception is that the writing center is a place to fix writing aka grammar. Thus, we get a lot of students sent by there professor who require their students to come to fix their grammar, or who do other things along those lines, like requiring them to visit the writing center to turn in a late paper and a rewrite. What I do, as often as I can, is get the word out to whoever listens about what the writing center is, and what we do. This is an ongoing part of trying to make the purpose of the writing center understood by everyone who uses it.
#1-Center Will Hold-Muriel Harris is the Writing Center God(dess).
Real #1-Cultural Studies Agenda
Cooper talks about making the session about the student and their writing. This is one of the ideas that I've really been trying to implement. Often, we don't get to the paper itself, because we spend time clarifying the assignment for the student and what he or she is writing on. I've found this to be really helpful, because even if we don't get to the paper, the student leaves with a more clear idea on the assignment and where they need to go with it.
#2-Lessons from Fannie
This article talks about the trouble of working with ESL students. The example given of Fannie and her tutor shows the problems that tutors working with ESL students can face, as well as cause. This is something that I try to avoid, and I think I do pretty well at it. Several ESL students do walk in expecting just a proofread or edit, and so we have to clarify what we do. Once the idea of our writing center is clear to the student, things go pretty smoothly. I also personally try to gauge what the student is worried about, or looking for, and we focus on that. In one case, I've started working on the rules of English with the student, going through it a step at a time to help her out.
#3-The Idea of a Writing Center
This one talks about what I harp on all the time. It discusses the idea of the writing center for the tutor and for the rest of the world. The common perception is that the writing center is a place to fix writing aka grammar. Thus, we get a lot of students sent by there professor who require their students to come to fix their grammar, or who do other things along those lines, like requiring them to visit the writing center to turn in a late paper and a rewrite. What I do, as often as I can, is get the word out to whoever listens about what the writing center is, and what we do. This is an ongoing part of trying to make the purpose of the writing center understood by everyone who uses it.
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