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• Title: Back to the Center: A Former Tutor Reflects (Personal Account)
• Author : Writing Lab Newsletter
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 60 KB

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While the mission of a writing center from an institutional perspective is to serve as a resource for students, it also may be "a resource which can be used with great effectiveness in the training of composition teachers" (Clark 347). The student- centered, collaborative, and process-oriented approaches to writing instruction that many tutors encounter, practice, and reflect upon in the writing center can transfer well to the composition classroom. And because some tutors will become instructors, writing center directors can influence classroom instruction by recognizing and emphasizing these complementary pedagogies in their teaching and training of a center's staff. In addition, if tutors' work experiences are positive, if they see that what they are learning and doing is consistent with their coursework in composition studies and relevant to their work as teachers and scholars, they will be career-long advocates for writing centers. The following is an overview of the skills, theories, and practices that I encountered in my writing center work and training that informed my classroom pedagogy and prepared me to guide future teachers to teach writing in the secondary schools. In particular, my writing center experience was important to my thinking about responding to and discussing writing, about collaboration and conferencing, and about interpreting and creating writing assignments. RESPONDING TO WRITING

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