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handing a situation where tutors aren't getting along

discussing how to handle a situation in which a staff comes appointed by a graduate department rather than hired by the WC director

crowdsourcing a list of "tricky" tutoring situations for use in a training workshop

discussing how to help a tutor work with a student who has hygiene issues

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

This open-access book by Steven J. Corbett, Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pegagogies, is available to be downloaded free. it is described as follows: How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs, as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and discourse analyses and ethnographic and case-study) investigations center on several course-based tutoring (CBT) partnerships at two universities. Rather than practice separately in the center or in the classroom, rather than seeing teacher here and tutor there and student over there, CBT asks all participants in the dynamic drama of teaching and learning to consider the many possible means of connecting synergistically. This book offers the "more-is-more" value of designing more peer-to-peer learning situations for developmental and multicultural writers, and a more elaborate view of what happens in these peer-centered learning environments. It offers important implications-especially of directive and nondirective tutoring strategies and methods-for peer-to-peer learning and one-to-one tutoring and conferencing for all teachers and learners of writing.

crowdsourcing a list of tutoring scenarios for training/orientation see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=20418331

discussing a student who has faked proof of a writing center visit for extra credit

a discussion of how directors handle faculty complaints a similar conversation here: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=17201123 a similar conversation here: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24467351

■ "We Also Ofer Online Services at Interpellation.edu": Althusserian Hails and Online Writing Centers Alan Benson ■ Situated Design for Multiliteracy Centers: A Rhetorical Approach to Visual Design Sohui Lee ■ Back to the Center: University of North Carolina Greensboro's Digital ACT Studio Lindsay Sabatino ■ Yes...And With Me: Mutuality and Improvisation as Methods for Consultant Development Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh ■ Training Speech Center Consultants: Moving Forward with a Backward Glance Linda Hobgood ■ Promoting Independence: Conducting Efcient Sessions with Learning-Disabled Students Ory Alexander Owen

a writing center receives funding from multicultural student services and is asked for information on students' race and degree status in exchange

how to address a faculty request for tutors to stamp papers to show that students have visited the WC see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=13278130

see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=19152149 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=21757331 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=22747331

in this variation on the required visit, a discussion of a professor who has asked the WC to contact students to make appointments with them

discussing circumstances under which WCs refuse to offer services to clients

discussing whether to offer students writing assistance for "sensitive" documents (appeals, grievances)

discussing what to do when a faculty member "escorts" a student to the WC