Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Openness
The readings for Wed., especially North's, seem to imply that the Writing Center is for everyone who writes (not just one who falls in the last of these three categories: the good writer, the average writer, and the other writer). North writes, "nearly everyone who writes likes -and needs- to talk about his or her writing, preferably to someone who will really listen..." (71). But I wonder, even if writing centers set up shop like Socrates and are willing to talk and listen, should all writers visit one? Is there such a student who shouldn't go?
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Should grad students go to writing centers? If so, do they get paired up with graduate tutors? I remember a few of my classmates at Wright State would go for final proofreading help, but I don't know that anyone went to get help with earlier stages of the process. Should undergraduates with good writing abilities go? Often my best students would go; they probably didn't "need" to, but then again, those visits may have been what helped them to become solid A students.
I get the impression that asking who should visit a writing center is perhaps an improper framing of the question because it seems to perpetuate the limited vision of the writing center as a fix-it shop. Suggesting that good students do not need to visit the writing center seems similarly problematic. A good place to begin, in the spirit of the Burkean parlor, might be to assert that writers who want to visit a writing center should do so and that writers who do not want to should not.
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