Re: Required visits, cont.

["Meg Larson" <mgl@tardis.svsu.edu>]

Neal, you're right of course--I was just trying to think of something or
anything that would make your job a little easier, but I guess my
suggestion went the other way.  As far as our center goes, the staff and
the faculty seem to get along, but I don't see too many faculty members
hanging around, y'know?  But faculty members from all disciplines send
their students to see us, and maybe a seminar of sorts set up by your
coordinator on the advantages of writing clear assignments would help.  the
faculty knows what they're asking, so maybe they don't realize how the
assignments come across to the students.  Then again, this might not
promote harmony, either.
  

"Never look where you're going--you'll only scare yourself"--P.J. O'Rourke

Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University



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> From: Neal Lerner <nlerner@mit.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Required visits, cont.
> Date: Thursday, October 31, 1996 4:56 PM
> 
> Meg Larson wrote:
> > I found your comments very interesting, because that's one of the areas
we
> > really pay attiention to in our WC.  The assignments are so critical to
> > what happens in the session that one instructor sent a copy of her
> > assignments to the WC to have them evaluated by the tutors.  This just
> > seems to be such a common-sensical approach that maybe you could
encourage
> > your faculty to do the same?
> 
> I agree, Meg, that it's a good idea, but it sure gets complicated
sometimes.  
> At the writing center I direct, most of the faculty members who send
students 
> to the WC are colleagues of mine, teaching the same course as I do 
> (first-year comp).  I'd be glad to give them feedback (as would the
tutors) 
> if they requested it (as your one instructor did), but unsolicited
feedback 
> wouldn't be the best move for harmonious relations.  There's a comp. 
> coordinator among the staff, and I'm thinking that such matters are more
her 
> responsibility than mine (particularly since I'm new and in a tenuous 
> position).
> 
> At the other writing center where I tutor (am I a glutton for punishment,
or 
> what?), there's very very little contact between faculty and tutors.  On
this 
> list, I've heard of some places with truly great communication between WC
and 
> faculty, but I suspect those are exceptions.  Am I wrong, folks?
> 
>         Neal Lerner
>         nlerner@mit.edu