My philosophy of a writing center
If I had to choose between one of the three kinds of center we´d talk about I will choose the Burkean Parlor style because I believe that collaboration is really important when you´re tutoring someone. My center will be one in which the knowledge is on the students, the tutors, and the situations, the student will learn from experiences , and the experiences may be from the tutors, the other students or maybe some study cases that we can use to learn.
The responsibility of the work absolutely depends on the student, tutors are just there to help students find the answers to their questions, and tutors are going to be a guide for students.
The power is going to be in the same proportion or maybe it could be a little more on the student side, because the student will be the one that bring all the information of what he/she need to write about.
I will like the tutors to also be students, so it can become a peer tutoring center, and tutors will be trained by some expertise on the subjects they need to know on tutoring.
Tutors will have a time where they can share experiences between them and with the teacher that will be supervising the center, so they can also learn from the experiences of their own “workmates”.
Empathy is very important here, for you to be a good tutor there has to be an empathic environment in the center, in that way the student will have the confidence to talk to the tutor about any subject.
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I really like that you put the responsibility on the student even though you're advocating collaboration. Also I didn't even think about needing to be empathetic! But you're very right because writing can be really difficult, and it's nice to work with someone who knows what you're going through (and cares!).
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