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Writing Center Thesis

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This paper addresses the problem(s) confronting the students coming into writing centers bringing with them dissertations and proposals written in highly specialized genres. These words demand a higher level of writing skills that too frequently are not part of a writing center.
The author’s findings are supported by separate surveys. The conclusions share the ideas of making the writing centers more efficient and up-to-date to meet the needs of all students across the college population.
UCLA is the main subject of this paper and offers free consultation to students wanting help. In return graduate students pay a fee that aids in the funding of the writing center. A second part of their plan involves a cross-discipline selection of writing …show more content…

Being a graduate student /master’s degree/writing teacher does not mean the individual has done a research proposal or even written an abstract. With a little guidance and a starting point these students will probably be able to accomplish most of their writing on their own, but when they need help, they need a higher level of help than the undergraduate student the most writing centers have as their core.
Teacher tool kits are available for nearly every new textbook on the market providing a teacher with a number of hands on resources as well as a bank of sources they can use. Developing a toolkit for tutoring disciplines certainly makes sense and would provide a constant source of help for graduate/doctorate …show more content…

Student (Summers, 122) was one of the UCLA case study participants. It begins with an experienced consultant and a new consultant. It was stressed to the new consultant that they needed to know what their toolkit was (Summers, 132). For a first time experience, a toolkit was chosen and then the various approaches that could be used was discussed. Both text-based and language-based strategies are sued as both of these are familiar to any student likely to use the writing center. Test-based may be nothing more than reading aloud, identify problem pattern, and editing. Discussion-based include asking the writer to summarize, asking questions, and conversing about the project.
In a well-organized toolkit, it should be easy to find the necessary tool to fill the gap. This does not mean that the writing centers toolkit does not have a little mess with it. A collection of strategies that allow consultant and writer to have a trial and error in solving their problems provides a little flexibility in working on the

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