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Yesterday Dr. Trixie Smith, the Director of the Writing Center here at MSU, headed our round-table discussion. We talked about her past experience having worked in a Writing Center as a student consultant and having worked as an administrator in other centers than our own. Trixie has a wealth of...

Kate M
4 weeks 4 days ago

Today's interview with Trixie answered many questions about how our writing center relates to Michigan State University as a whole. While the North article we read this week expounded on the problems a Writing Center faces with how it is perceived, Trixie helped me better understand how MSU's...

kehuskyl
4 weeks 4 days ago

As many (all) have been mentioning, we had our round-table interview with Trixie today.  I am actually surprised at how much I got out of it.  It was really interesting to learn that Michigan State’s WC is considered a leader in the country for its work, especially the work it does...

elenbaasbarbra
4 weeks 4 days ago

going to the writing center conference at oakland university on saturday really gave me a different perspective on the writing center in a couple of ways. firstly, in one of the workshops i went to, we talked about the idea of age-gaps between clients and consultants, and ended up leaning more...

cari r
4 weeks 4 days ago

My WRA 395 class got the opportunity to interview the director of the writing center today. It was nice to have a change to learn more, both about her and the cernter where I hope to work eventually. IT was also great that we got a change to ask her all of the questions that have been building...

Kimberly
4 weeks 4 days ago

The interview today in class was a really interesting conversation, it was really cool to hear how just working in the center started Trixie on a really rewarding career path.  While I don't think working in a Writing Center will be more than an part-time job for me, it started me thinking...

jennp
4 weeks 4 days ago

The interview tonight with Trixie helped to flesh out a lot of the current reality of the Writing Center. We’ve spent a lot of hours on reading essays about the work and talking about concepts, so it was very useful to actually be “caught up on the latest,” so to speak. For example, North’s...

caleb
4 weeks 4 days ago

As will seem repetitive for anyone who reads all of these blog posts, the director of the Center, Trixie, talked to the consultant-in-training class today. She answered all of our questions, press-conference style, and gave us some insider knowledge about the MSU Writing Center and how it...

saldrich32
4 weeks 4 days ago

Today Trixie, director of the Writing Center, met with our WRA 395 class to answer any questions we had about her, the history and goals of the WC, and our future at the WC. I found the class to be very interesting and insightful. It was nice to get to hear Trixie's pedagogy about the WC. One of...

trumbl17
4 weeks 4 days ago

In our Writing Center class yesterday, Scott asked us about the importance of the Writing Center supporting multiliteracies. We talked about how the Writing Center should reflect society and the different modes of communication that are commonly used. But there is another benefit of being able...

saldrich32
5 weeks 4 days ago