Hi Rick and Kathryn,
You'll be glad to hear that our staffing model at the SFU Student Learning Commons with undergraduate peer tutors, graduate peer facilitators, and writing specialists allows us to address writing issues at the transactional and systemic levels, i.e. through individual consultations with students as well as by partnering with faculty to hone and assess writing assignments and classroom writing strategies. We are certainly interested in the number of tutor-student interactions as there's a large demand to meet, but we are even more invested in the quality of the learning that takes place. There are different models of writing centres and services, but I think we all share a common philosophy and commitment.
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Elaine
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Moving writing centre work into student learning centres may decrease the quality and quantity of students' learning, but it does save money--at SFU, as I remember, undergraduate peer tutors replaced professional instructors to a significant extent--and if you measure only number of tutor-student interactions it can be made to look as as if one is "doing more with less."
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Great article and depressing given all the hard work in the past decade being dismantled as writing centres are being moved into student learning commons
Kathryn
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There's an interesting article in University Affairs on the HEQCO report on writing assignments by Jordana Garbati, Kelly McDonald, Lindsay Meaning, Boba Samuels, and Cory Scurr:
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/study-finds-a-lack-of-structure-and-cohesion-in-how-writing-is-taught-at-university/?c=1#comments
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Andrea
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