When pre-writing needs to be done in the Writing Center, how do you decide which method would be best for the writer when you have only known them for a short time?
St. Martin's:
Considering that professors with strong opinions will be grading a writer's paper, could voicing your opinion on a writers paper that offends you potentially save them from offending a professor?
Response to St. Martin's question:
ReplyDeleteI believe that voicing an opinion on a writers paper could save them from offending a professor but I don't know if that is necessarily our job or our place to correct their ideas. We are indeed supposed to act as a trained peer but most of the time the people who we are tutoring are new to us and it would seem hard to build up such a strong report within one hours time to feel comfortable enough to tell someone that their ideas are offensive and that they need to change in order to keep from offending a professor. Mentioning that some people (i.e a professor) may find some of a writers ideas a bit "harsh" might be a way to circumvent telling a writer outright that their ideas are offensive because it is obviously not offensive to the writer and they have the right to have and voice their own opinions.