Presentation/Proposal Title
Slippage Across Narratives, Story as Theory, and Multiple Perspectives in our Peer Writing Tutor/Consultant Research Project
Type of Presentation/Proposal
Special interest group/roundtable
Start Date
6-4-2019 11:15 AM
End Date
6-4-2019 12:15 PM
Keywords
cultural rhetorics, transfer, mentorship, undergraduate research, professional development
Description
What does cultural rhetorics work look like in the writing center? As a writing center that has recently undergone leadership shifts, physical space moves, and all the other changes that come with existing in a university, we remember that cultural rhetorics work means taking a step back to study the experiences actually had in our writing center. Our project Peer Writing Tutor/Consultant Alumni Research Project (PWTCARP) builds upon Kail, Gillespie, and Hughes’s PWTARP with data from a survey of and interviews with former undergraduate consultants. Using former consultants’ stories as theories, we seek to answer the questions “What experiences and skill sets do we foster?” and “How is writing center experience transferable?”. Additionally, as researchers, we must ask “How do we study something in flux?” and “How is this very work, of a tenure-track writing center director mentoring an undergraduate consultant in research, related to the content we’re studying?”.
During our roundtable discussion, we will share our personal experiences as both researchers and participants in the community we’re studying. In speaking about our findings from former consultants’ experiences, our own experience as research and community members will be undeniably intertwined. We hope to facilitate a bigger conversation regarding transfer, undergraduate research, mentorship, and cultural rhetoric work in the writing center.
Slippage Across Narratives, Story as Theory, and Multiple Perspectives in our Peer Writing Tutor/Consultant Research Project
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What does cultural rhetorics work look like in the writing center? As a writing center that has recently undergone leadership shifts, physical space moves, and all the other changes that come with existing in a university, we remember that cultural rhetorics work means taking a step back to study the experiences actually had in our writing center. Our project Peer Writing Tutor/Consultant Alumni Research Project (PWTCARP) builds upon Kail, Gillespie, and Hughes’s PWTARP with data from a survey of and interviews with former undergraduate consultants. Using former consultants’ stories as theories, we seek to answer the questions “What experiences and skill sets do we foster?” and “How is writing center experience transferable?”. Additionally, as researchers, we must ask “How do we study something in flux?” and “How is this very work, of a tenure-track writing center director mentoring an undergraduate consultant in research, related to the content we’re studying?”.
During our roundtable discussion, we will share our personal experiences as both researchers and participants in the community we’re studying. In speaking about our findings from former consultants’ experiences, our own experience as research and community members will be undeniably intertwined. We hope to facilitate a bigger conversation regarding transfer, undergraduate research, mentorship, and cultural rhetoric work in the writing center.
