Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process.
Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering support in war-torn countries, and students in international centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative experiences in writing center spaces.
Author(s): Max Orsini, Loren Kleinman
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 138
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword: A Play in Three Acts
Acknowledgements
Editors’ Introduction
PART I: How We Help
Navigating Writing Centers’ Collaborative Spaces: Listening at the Edges of Consultations
The Golden Door That Influenced My Career
Who Is Allowed to Be Tutored?
All Students Are Welcome: A Writing Center Journey
I Don’t Know, but I’ll Find Out: A Lesson in Mentoring
The Paradox of Tolerance and Writing Centers
The Tenderest Revenge: From a Tutee to a Tutor
My Dissertation Has Become a Funny Dinner Party Story
Wednesday Afternoons of Words (On the Importance of
Tutoring and Mentoring for the International Student Writer)
When Nurturing a Dream: The Impact of Finding a Mentor
Part I: Questions for Discussion
Notes: Part I
PART II: A Voice of One’s Own
Restoration with Unlikely Alliances Reinforced in a Prison Writing Center
The Effect of Double Consciousness on a Black Writer in
White Academia
Becoming a Tutor
How Gratitude Informs Tutoring: Finding Comfort in the
Unknown
Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared
Part II: Questions for Discussion
Notes: Part II
PART III: How Writing Communities Are Made
There and Write Back: Building Confidence through Tutoring
Before You Start: I Used to Think That Writing Centers
Were Fix-it Shops
The Laboratory of Academic Literacy (LAL): A Community
of Support in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Taking the Writing Center Home
Two Accounts, One Writing Center: How the Pandemic
Impacted Tutor Experiences and Identities
Reflections of a New Writing Center Consultant
What the Writing Center Taught Me
On Witnessing and Co-creating Sacred Space in the Writing
Classroom
This Is Not an Essay. It Is a Love Letter
Part III: Questions for Discussion
A Holistic Approach: Broader Questions for Discussion
Index
