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The Benefits and Limitations of Online Peer Feedback: Instructors’ Perception of a Regional Campus Online Writing Lab (2020)

The socioeconomics of the working-class area where our open- admission regional campus is situated have resulted in a struggle to prepare and retain our underprepared students. The campus tutoring center is central to our retention efforts; to address the needs of our population, we offer both face-to-face and online tutoring. The article reports the findings of an empirical study that looks at writing instructors’ perception of these tutoring services, with emphasis on the online component.

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Rethinking What to Preserve as Writing Centers Move Online (2020)

In this timely piece, Dr. Lisa Bell provides an overview of the strengths/cautions of online tutoring and argues that despite all these changes, what we need to preserve is the writing center’s ethos of being flexible and adapting to the needs of our students. In other words, our aim shouldn’t be to maintain the dynamics of f2f, but rather, to maintain our values as writing center practitioners.

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Tutoring Strategies for Online Students (2019)

This presentation presents tools and tips gleaned from one tutoring and writing center’s experience expanding its online operations. Directly addressing concerns and misconceptions about online tutoring, it suggests best practices for developing a tutoring program that serves the needs of online students. Both synchronous and asynchronous tutoring methods are addressed, as well as accessibility concerns.

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Going Professional: Writing Centers’ Challenges and Possibilities in Working with Emerging Online Professional Graduate Student Programs (2019)

This project demonstrated the urgency of developing writing center pedagogies for adult professionals—those working in fields requiring higher education, usually a college degree, and including formal standards of practice—in contrast to either traditional college student writers or graduate students in scholarly fields.

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Learning Online to Tutor Online (2019)

For students operating in an online environment, making support services available in the same fashion is vital to their ongoing success. Even for students attending classes face-to-face, allowing the option for online support makes sense as students are researching and writing online.

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