Tutee Report

Jane J. Parkerton

Professor Barbara Gleason

Engl B5600 Writing Center Theory & Practice

October 27, 2010

Visiting a Writing Center and Liking It:

Report from A Once Solitary Garret

I have undergone a sea change in my attitude and understanding of the way I view knowledge and how it is accumulated or accessed, reluctantly venturing out of my solitary garret to taste the benefits of collaboration in the Burkean parlors of writing centers and classrooms. The new buds of this change in my thinking blossomed after reading Lunsford’s article, “Collaboration, Control and the Idea of a Writing Center." However, I think the first fertile seeds were sown in my recent involvement in writing centers, both as a new writing center consultant at the Center for Worker Education (CWE), a division of The City College of New York (CCNY), and, more reluctantly, as a tutee in the CCNY Writing Center. It was, in the final analysis, through this initially hesitant but seemingly effortless experience as a tutee that I brought theory and practice together and began to grasp the potential of collaboration in learning. Click here for rest of report.