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assignment vs. student

a couple of my co-consultations have been with clients who were assigned to go to the writing center as part of a class. although the idea of that is good - that is, to get acquainted with the writing center - i feel like it might not be the best way to get students invested in writing. or if...

cari r
3 weeks 4 days ago
Today's Class and Grimm's Article

The two articles we read today for class today and our discussions with Trixie really challenged my previous notions of a writing center's position in relation to the university as a whole. I had always considered the Writing Center as complimentary to students' courses and academic writing, but...

kehuskyl
3 weeks 4 days ago
LITERACY

When I think about my literacy, I think of when I learned to read and write.  I mean, sure, I’m good at other things too, but I’m an English major.  The last three years of my life have been defined by READ THIS and WRITE ABOUT THIS!  I started thinking about our upcoming paper...

elenbaasbarbra
3 weeks 4 days ago
Bessey vs. Library

I did my second co-consultation today (as part of our consultants-in-training program) at one of the WC satellite locations, in the library. It was such a different experience from consulting in 300 Bessey. First of all, it was crazy loud in the library, and there were tons of distractions. I...

saldrich32
3 weeks 4 days ago
personal relationship--absent

Grimm’s article got me thinking. When she began talking about Foucault, and his points about how the tutor-position was created to extend the power of the teacher, something clicked with me. I think one of the reasons the collaborative process works so well is because of the more personal...

caleb
3 weeks 4 days ago
Thinking about My Literacies

As our paper on literacy is due next Monday, I have begun to think about what my literacies may be.  My first instinct was to write about turfgrass.  I've worked at the Turfgrass Information Center for the past  four years and have since acquired a lot of specific knowledge about...

kburns
3 weeks 4 days ago
Letter

We are writing a letter to a Grimm, who we read an article by in class. The article was very interesting because it provides a view of writing centers that we had not really took into consideration before. This is the idea that writing centers can actually be counter productive in the ways that...

Kimberly
3 weeks 4 days ago
Interesting Insight

Today Trixie led our WRA 395 class. After some class discussion, we were broken into two groups to collaboratively write a letter to one of two authors whose work we had read for class. In our group we started talking about the importance of being able to read the client and how to interact with...

trumbl17
3 weeks 4 days ago
Michigan Writing Centers 2009, Director's Blog #11

Recently, a number of us attended the annual Bright Ideas Share Fair hosted by Oakland University on behalf of the Michigan Writing Centers Association.  It's always a good day because it gives us a chance to see what others in the area are doing in their writing centers, it lets us catch...

Trixie Smith
4 weeks 3 hours ago
More than "just a Job"

First, apologies for the lateness - I just got back from Canada.  The thing that I've been thinking a lot about since reading the Stock article and the class interview with Trixie, has been the idea that all learning doesn't have to look the same.  Up until this point it hadn't yet "...

kburns
4 weeks 3 days ago