Sutton's Rule for Writing Centers
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Date
2008
Authors
Dangler, Doug
Eodice, Michele
Haviland, Carol Peterson
Pennington, Jill
Turcottte, Tiffany
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On many days, writing centers are wonderlands of collaborative discovery and
rich reading and writing of texts.[1] Occasionally, however, the scene is
different: Demanding students “tutor hop” for paper fixing rather than learning,
inflexible faculty assign the same irrelevant paper 25 years in a row and wonder
why tutors don’t keep students from plagiarizing, and the very dean we need to
“get it” continues to ask for a report that no one will read. Occasionally, even
writing center directors are pretty tough to deal with.