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August 12, 2020

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.

Keywords

asynchronous, synchronous, pandemic, COVID-19, access, replication of face-to-face, learning needs and preferences, participatory learning, dialogue

Abstract

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. The tutoring pedagogies and practices may need to change in online spaces, but it’s our collective openness to change and to meeting our students where they are, that are the constants in our field.

Citation Information

Type of Source: Blog Post

Author: Lisa Bell

Year of Publication: 2020

Title: “Rethinking What to Preserve as Writing Centers Move Online”

Publication: Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders: A Blog of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship

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