RE: Extra-curricular consulting

[Merry Farrington <merry@mail.wsu.edu>]

Eric,
Precisely what I was thinking only you said it better. Evening hours and
providing satellite centers in dorms are just two of the ideas that WSU
Writing Center Director Lisa Johnson-Shull has come up with to address
that issue. Plus our writing center is quite comfortable, which
really does make a difference to someone seeking help and feeling
vulnerable, for example.
Merry Farrington
Washington State University


On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Eric Crump wrote:

> So maybe the amount of extra-curricular business writing consultants are
> getting is a sign worth heeding. Maybe that's your constituency expressing
> its preferences. Your writers perhaps would rather seek assistance in less
> formal settings and at times more convenient to them. One response might
> be to try to nip that in the bud, try to force them to seek help at a time
> & place more convenient for the institution. 
> 
> Another response might be to shift the writing center's approach and
> *count* those extra-curricular meets and writing center tutorials.
> Instead of paying tutors to sit in an empty writing center, pay them to
> get out among the students & tutor them where they are. That way, you meet
> the needs of your constituency *and* get institutional credit for it. 
> 
> Just an idea...
> 
> --Eric Crump
>