a discussion of the difficulty of assessing the effect of writing center intervention when considered among other variables (instructor, class dynamics, student health, etc.)
Shelley Powers from the University of Texas at Austin talks about how consulting on technical writing projects can make liberal arts-trained writing consultants nervous. However, technical writing is more familiar territory than we might think.
One of the recurrent questions we ask ourselves as writing center practitioners is what we're doing: basically, what our theoretical assumptions are about our work, and how they inform (or fail to inform, or even hinder) that work.
Video summary: "Dirk Calloway visits the Writing Center only because it's required. Jaymie assumes the worst about Dirk and their appointment goes horribly. Jaymie gets advice from her fellow peer writing tutors and learns how to work productively with Dirk."