Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The past tw braced a no between a wr intervenes a ethics orien aimed at ad open-admis manifestati text owner known as t student self enablers not as "owned" "their own teachers we Writing cen approach.In terms of scholarship, as journals concerned with writing centers developed in the late 70s and early 80s, the literature reflected this non-interventionist ideology, cautioning tutors about imposing their own ideas on a student's text, talking too much, making changes to the student's language, and, generally, having too much influence on the conference.This non-directive model is often ascribed to StephenNorth's "The Idea of a Writing Center," although the policy is more explicitly articulated in Jeff Brooks' essay on "Minimalist Tutoring, " which may be summarized as follows:(If) tutoring is about improving the writer, not the writing, practice must follow from that premise.If our focus is on the
Source: The Writing center journal
Author: Irene Clark
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W13695397