Sourcebook:
One section that struck me in Freed’s essay was when she talked about how tutor’s, just like teachers, are viewed as authority figures by students, and therefore need to follow certain ethical codes.
Do you think that the tutors who work here at the University of Richmond are viewed as “authority figures” considering that they do not have any higher level of education than the students they are working with (unless they are older and have more college experience)? Will this cause students not to take their writing fellow visits seriously?
Bedford:
Do you think that most college level students go through every stage of the writing process described in this chapter? If not, do you think this is because they were not taught this structure in high school?
Sourcebook:
ReplyDeleteI don't know if students consciously think of consultants as 'authority figures', but i definitely feel as though this perception is there. As someone employed by the Writing Centre to help with the revision of papers, students will think that the consultants, even though they are their peers, have some sort of superior knowledge about writing and how to achieve that 'perfect paper'. I think that this would cause students to take consultants' comments seriously, which is why we have to be careful of how we approach each paper and how we speak to the students.