Re: request for community college information

["Clinton R. Gardner" <cgardner@englab.slcc.edu>]

I agree wholeheartedly with this statement.  To say that only faculty 
can tutor at a community college writing center seems to strangle the concept of a 
writing center.  Is a writing center a place where writers come to 
share their writing and discuss it with others or is it a place where 
'bad writers' come to be fixed by 'experts?'  I prefer to hold to the 
previous definition (eventhough some of the latter goes on) 
and feel that peer tutors work well to facillitate response rather than repair.

--clint


> Date:          Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:29:33 -0600
> Reply-to:      wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> From:          nleech@sunyrockland.edu
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu>
> Subject:       Re: request for community college information

> In response to D'Ann George's question about who would tutor in a 
> community college writing center if faculty did not, I feel the need to 
> speak up for the effectiveness of student tutors in a two-year setting.  
> We recruit about forty brand new freshman from our honors program each 
> fall to be our tutors.  Granted, they need a lot of guidance and support, 
> but they can relate to students in ways that faculty cannot, and within a 
> semester, they function very wonderfully on their own, for the most part.
> 
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Clinton Gardner (cgardner@englab.slcc.edu)
Writing Center Instructional Support Coordinator
Salt Lake Community College
Have you visited the SLCC Virtual Writing Center today?
http://www.slcc.edu/wc/
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