Robert Taylor

 1. There was some mention throughout the resources that referred to the writing process, but a lot of those references seemed to assume that all writers are going to approach the writing process in similar ways. I am a firm believer that there is not a universal process that works for all writers; however, I do acknowledge that there are steps in any writer's process that are vital to that process. My question is based on these two ideas: How much of our jobs as tutors will be teaching a writing process and how much of our jobs will be working with the process that the writers already use? Are we to act as purveyors of the process or facilitators of a process?


2. With all Writing Center interactions being online this fall, how do cancellations and no shows work for checking the Document Review system? Are we simply acting as if our Appointment time is the time we would have been in the Writing Center? To extend this question, how often should we be checking Document Review otherwise? This section in the tutor guide was a little confusing to me in general.

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  1. Carol SeverinoSeptember 1, 2020 at 4:20 PM

    I wouldn't think of the writing process as an either/or issue--either yours/an official textbook writing process or theirs. Ask what process they went though when you're discussing a piece of their writing (rather than in the abstract) and ask whether the processes they usually use work for them. Are they happy with their writing processes? Many students tend to truncate the writing process and leave out the part at the beginning (planning) and the parts toward the end (revising and editing).

    You don't have to worry about document review until midtern when Deirdre teaches us how to do it. At that time, you'd only check the document review for a short paper if you have a no-show or two for an hour during your tutoring shift. Or if you have accumulated no-shows (say, one no-show 4 nights in a row) you can claim a document and do it outside of the tutoring shift.

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