MAWCA+Presentation

03/25/11

Planning the presentation

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** Our Questions ** **1. How can Bob and his consultants best sell the center to faculty and students?** Approach English department first, tell them it's not about creating a perfect paper or about taking care of writing on behalf of the rest of the institution; what the writing center is about: higher-order concerns. Kent's guide as resource.

**2. What advice do you have for assessing the effectiveness of the center?**

**3. What about the logistics of daily operation?** How long can sessions be? Barely enough time in a short (20 min.) session. Before/after school? Pick up again next session? Prioritize during session to address during the time. Grouping student writers with consultants? Have students come in with prepared questions/concerns (handout for sign-in guides writer in doing this).

**4. What strategies might help change a high school’s landscape or grow a writing community throughout the school?**

**5. What experience or advice do you have regarding the strategies that Molly and Jess have come upon in their research?**

**6. What else should we take into account as we build the Berwick center?**

**7. How can we use our remaining weeks of the semester to equip these Berwick consultants?**

**8. What advice do you have to help us sustain the Berwick center and our collaboration?**

**9. If you have launched such a project, what was your greatest challenge while building your high school center?**

**10. What makes your high school center an inviting environment? Food? Music? Room arrangements? Other tactics?** Cubicles, plants, comfy chairs, sections for working on different kinds of projects; not a clinic but a "working center" (place to get work done, feel good before you leave, not critiqued/evaluated)

**11. If Berwick has 1,000 students, how many students might use the center? What is typical?**

**12. How can we best manage the roles and relationships among college student-teachers of writing and high school writing consultants?** Navigating the transition from working one-on-one to working with many students. Matching college tutors and high school tutors to facilitate conversation about consulting. Addressing similarities and differences to peer-editing and previous experiences with that practice. Listserv for HSWCs (local and global).


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