Promoting Writing Self-Efficacy in the Age of AI
The Age of AI AI is nearly everywhere, including writing centers. In addition to my personal experiences, I’ve heard various anecdotes from other tutors about situations where they encounter…
Embedded vs. Drop-in Tutors in Developmental Writing Contexts
Which is more effective: Drop-in or Writing Fellows tutoring? It’s a provocative question. And like most questions pitting one answer against another in a possible false dichotomy, the direct…
Tutoring Freshman in the Writing Center
The transition from high school to college can be incredibly difficult for brand-new college students for a variety of reasons. When coming into college, freshman college students must adjust to new schedules, new expectations,…
Writers Finding the Right Tutor
Why is it important to find a tutor that’s right for you as a writer? In the writing center, we experience a variety of writing that we edit and read. This is beneficial to…
Helping Writers Overcome the Fear of Sharing Their Work
How can we, as peer tutors, aid writers in overcoming their fear of sharing their work? In our research, we analyzed why writers are anxious to share their work, strategies that help writers overcome…
Bridge the Gap: Introducing ALORA
By: Beach Keenan For my tutoring inquiry project, I decided to focus on how to observe and address obstructive behavioral patterns writers may have when scheduling and attending an appointment. An obstructive behavior is…
Accommodation Station
Overview Our project focused on the ideas of accommodations within the Writing Center, and how they can be implemented to better experiences for both writers and tutors. We delved into ideas surrounding how Writing…
Rethinking Reading Aloud: Exploring the Point-Predict Method
When we think about reading aloud in writing center sessions, the conversation often centers on who should do the reading: the writer or the tutor. This seemingly straightforward choice has long been informed by…
Multiliteracy and Digital Writing Center Theory
kinteract.com In recent years, multiliteracy has become a central idea in how we approach learning. Multiliteracy refers to fluency in not only spoken language like English, but across multiple languages, dialects, or even modalities,…
A Free-Standing Building: Defining Scaffolding for Equity and Justice Practice in Writing Center Work within Campus and Carceral Settings
I can still hear my ballet teachers, whether Vaganova devotees or Balanchine disciples, verbally harkening back to an earlier combination, movement, or place in the studio and saying “Remember…what you did then prepared you,…
Power Dynamics in Writing Tutoring
Power and authority seem to have nothing to do with writing tutoring or writing centers, the place well known for its three Cs: “coffee, cookies, and couches” (Carino 2003, 102). These three cozy and…
Providing Feedback on Creative Writing
Through our research on Writing Center pedagogy and creative writing tutoring, we established five main focuses that can help prepare and enable tutors to provide the best possible feedback. Creative writing tutoring stems from…
Multi, Multi, & Multi: Multimodality’s Place in the Writing Center
In my first year of being a Writing Center tutor, I can now proudly say I haven’t had a single synchronous appointment about writing. Those who know me have heard me say (many times)…
Proposing a Hierarchy of Concerns for Stories
Introduction As someone who loves to read and write stories, I know firsthand how subjective they can be. Personal preference alone can decide whether a reader praises a story as the best thing that’s…