James Bond Consultants in a Writing Lab
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Date
2006
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Devet, Bonnie
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During spring, writing lab directors are undergoing their own ritual. They are
gathering names of students from faculty who have been nominated for the job
of tutor, interviewing these prospective consultants, and, finally, making job
offers to the best and the brightest in order to secure the new crop of tutors for
the fast-approaching fall. Directors can now catch their breaths, assuming that
training can wait until the fall.
But can it?
As a director of a writing center, I’ve learned not to wait until the fall but rather
to use the last precious weeks of the spring term to expose newly selected
consultants to the world of consulting, so they can begin, even now their
process of becoming well-trained consultants.