NTWCA
Spring Conference via zoom
For the Friday, April 9th, 2021 Spring Conference, we tried something a little different-- since most of us are working from home because of the pandemic-- and offered the conference online. We're so excited to it was another successful conference, and we were still able to offer opportunities for professional development and peer engagement in a virtual setting!
Overview of Round-table Discussions:
Overview of Round-table Discussions:
- 10 am: Click to enter Managing Mentoring Boundaries (Mallory Matyk, University of Texas at Dallas). Setting boundaries with student tutors and colleagues can be easy in the physical writing center space. What happens when you spend a year working from home and you invite your students and coworkers into your home for virtual meetings, trainings, and performance reviews? How do you maintain boundaries (or set new ones)? What does the recalibration look like when you return to the physical space?
- 11 am: Click to enter Managing Online Writing Centers (Carli Varble, Texas Woman's University). During the pandemic, we have all faced challenges and celebrated successes operating our writing centers online. This discussion is an opportunity to discuss what has been effective operating online, as well as challenges faced. In addition to discussing current trends, this will be an opportunity to brainstorm with other writing center professionals how to move forward from here. What aspects of the past year's experiences will we keep the same? How can we best prepare to manage our centers going forward?
- 1 pm: Click to enter Tutoring Good Writers (Jennifer Phillips-Denny, Texas Woman's University). Writing center tutors are really good at triage. Best practices emphasize teaching tutors to focus on higher order writing issues--in other words, writing issues that are the most urgent. It’s no wonder then that sometimes “bad” writing is easier to tutor than “good” writing. While tutors feel comfortable in the zones of the most urgent higher order issues, like thesis statements, argument development, and patterns of paragraph development, they also feel comfortable with the most urgent lower order issues, like comma splice and subject/verb agreement. But what are we doing for “good” writers who come to our centers to become “great” writers, those writers that do not have “urgent” writing issues?
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