Re: Helpful Articles

[Beth Boquet <eboquet@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU>]

Dave--

Very interesting choices.  Thanks for spending some time thinking 
about this.  I also like the Grimm and Welch pieces for their ability 
to demonstrate how we theorize out from practice.  That would seem to 
be important in raising the issue of how to think globally about what 
must look like very specific situations in the writing center, 
particularly to people who have never worked in one.

Trimbur's "Peer Tutoring" seems important too, particularly since I 
often get questions (as I think I've mentioned before) like, "Can 
peer tutors really do this, think that hard, raise those questions, 
etc.?"

Now I have to admit that I feel I must use North's "Idea of a Writing 
Center"--probably as a base line.  It's just so damn good.  I know 
there are problems with it; I know we've moved (at least in much of 
our scholarship) in other directions since then; but I'm thinking 
that North's articulation will probably still ring true for most of 
the faculty in other disciplines (even though it was written for 
colleagues in English) and it will likely move them a little farther 
than they already are.

Thoughts on this?

Or do other people have other suggestions?

--Beth
Elizabeth Boquet
Director, The Writing Center
DM 130
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT  06430
Tel: 203/254-4000, ext. 2529
E-Mail:  eboquet@fair1.fairfield.edu