Re: Grad Students and Wcenters

[cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

>
>Hello.  I have two quick questions for anyone out there with answers.  Do 
>grad students at your college/university utilize the writing center?  If so 
>how did you interest these students in coming to the writing center for help 
>with their writing?
>
>DeAnna Spurlin
>Graduate Student 
>    and Writing Center Tutor
>State University of Georgia
>dspurlin@westga.edu
>
>

A number of grad students use the Reading/Writing Center at Florida State,
where we offer for-credit individualized instruction in writing.  To be
honest, my graduate assistant and I are only beginning to figure our how
these students know about our services, since we do almost no advertising.
We have some hunches.  For example, we have several art history grad
students who come in quite worried that their writing is not up to snuff.
At first we hypothesized that one art history prof was particularly brutal,
but we have since discovered that more than one prof has "recommended" (or
coerced) students to the RWC.  So now we figure that these profs must be
talking to each other.  We also have a number of international grad students
who are probably recommended to us by the International Student Center.
Other grad students seem to be self-selected.  We're still trying to figure
out the puzzle.  
>
Carrie Shively Leverenz
Director, Reading/Writing Center
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1036
(904)644-5157
cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu