Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words : Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Foreword: A Play in Three Acts Acknowledgements Editors’ Introduction PART I: How We Help Navigating Writing Centers’ Collaborative Spaces: Listening at the Edges of Consultations The Golden Door That Influenced My Career Who Is Allowed to Be Tutored? All Students Are Welcome: A Writing Center Journey I Don’t Know, but I’ll Find Out: A Lesson in Mentoring The Paradox of Tolerance and Writing Centers The Tenderest Revenge: From a Tutee to a Tutor My Dissertation Has Become a Funny Dinner Party Story Wednesday Afternoons of Words (On the Importance of Tutoring and Mentoring for the International Student Writer) When Nurturing a Dream: The Impact of Finding a Mentor Part I: Questions for Discussion Notes: Part I PART II: A Voice of One’s Own Restoration with Unlikely Alliances Reinforced in a Prison Writing Center The Effect of Double Consciousness on a Black Writer in White Academia Becoming a Tutor How Gratitude Informs Tutoring: Finding Comfort in the Unknown Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared Part II: Questions for Discussion Notes: Part II PART III: How Writing Communities Are Made There and Write Back: Building Confidence through Tutoring Before You Start: I Used to Think That Writing Centers Were Fix-it Shops The Laboratory of Academic Literacy (LAL): A Community of Support in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era Taking the Writing Center Home Two Accounts, One Writing Center: How the Pandemic Impacted Tutor Experiences and Identities Reflections of a New Writing Center Consultant What the Writing Center Taught Me On Witnessing and Co-creating Sacred Space in the Writing Classroom This Is Not an Essay. It Is a Love Letter Part III: Questions for Discussion A Holistic Approach: Broader Questions for Discussion Index "Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process. Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering support in war-torn countries, and students in international centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable resource for student writing tutors, and anyone involved with them, including composition instructors and scholars, writing center professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with academic support programs"-- Provided by publisher __Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words__ collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process. Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering support in war-torn countries, and students in international centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable resource for student writing tutors and anyone involved with them, including composition instructors and scholars, writing center professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with academic support programs. This book presents personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process.