Locating the Center: Exploring the Roles of In-Class Tutors in First Year Composition Classrooms
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Date
2014
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DeLoach, Scott
Angel, Elyse
Breaux, Ebony
Keebler, Kevin
Klompien, Kathleen
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In “Diplomatic Relations: Peer Tutors in the
Writing Classroom,” Teagan Decker contends that
“one of the most crucial” things that defines a writing
center is “the relationship it has with those who assign
the writing in the first place” (17). Decker’s
contention, that looking to the other can clarify the
self, poses important questions that every writing
center, and writing program for that matter, should
ask itself: who are we and what do we do? Essentially, we
conducted this study to answer these questions. As
these things are wont to do, our initial questions led to
other, more specific questions: how do/should CI
composition faculty view our in-class tutors (ICT)? What
expectations do we have for each other? Do the Writing Center
and the composition department have an understanding of the
authority of the ICT within the classroom space?