Chapter 1 of the Bedford Guide: The Writing Center as a Workplace

The chapter focuses on professionalism as a value permeating all writing center interactions. The third bullet point on page 3 touches on a challenging scenario in which a student attempts to discuss a project's grade with a tutor. What would you do and say if a student you were tutoring said, "Dr. Jingleheimerschmidt gave me a C on my last paper, even though I always got A's in high school English. Don't you think this paper I'm working on now should get at least a B?"

Chapter 2: The Writing Process

Chapter 2 focuses on writing as a multi-stage, recursive, fluid process. What is your writing process? Do you use the same process for every writing task? What do you do that others might not do?

Chapter 3: Inside the Tutoring Session

Chapter 3 presents the tutoring session as a complex social situation with multiple stages. Take a look at the scenarios presented on pages 33-38, choose one, and explain what you would do and say during the "Setting the Agenda" phase of a tutoring session with the student in the scenario you chose.