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A copy and paste, comment-shaping tool for online aysnchronous consultations. Aims to help consultants address common surface, global, citation and plagiarism issues in online student work.

"The E-Consulting UBERdoc" is a comment-shaping tool for online asynchronous consultations. This document aims to help consultants address common surface, global, citation, and plagiarism issues in online student work.

""The E-Consulting UBERdoc" is a comment-shaping tool for online asynchronous consultations. This document aims to help consultants address common surface, global, citation, and plagiarism issues in online student work."

Faculty and writing center tutors bring expertise to writing as practice and pro-cess. Yet at many institutions, the two groups work in relative isolation, missing opportunities to learn from each other. In this article, I describe a faculty de-velopment initiative in a multidisciplinary writing program that brings together new faculty and experienced undergraduate tutors to workshop instructors' com-ments on first-year writing. The purpose of these workshops is to assist faculty in crafting inquiry-driven written responses that pave the way for collaborative faculty-student conferences. By bringing together scholarly conversations on tu-tor expertise and the role of faculty comments in student learning, I argue for the value of extending partnerships between writing centers and programs. Such ac-counts are important to the field for challenging what Grutsch McKinney (2013) calls the "writing center grand narrative," which limits the scope of writing center work by imagining centers primarily as "comfortable, iconoclastic places where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on their writing" to the exclusion of lived realities (p. 3). In this case, I describe a writing center where tutors bring their expertise outside the center and into the faculty office, consulting in small groups with faculty with the aim of enriching the quality of instructor feedback in first-year seminars.

a discussion of how to best assist a NNES graduate student who comes to the center asking for help with assessing and commenting on student papers

students discuss what they wish instructor comments would address

Saint Mary's University Writing Center blog has posts about tutoring, such as this one about asking questions as tutoring tools. 

discussing how, if at all, the WC should intervene when a faculty member expresses negative remarks about a student