Isabelle Lundin
Isabelle is a writer, researcher, and scholar specializing in rhetoric and composition and writing center studies. With experience and expertise using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, Isabelle is a committed, self-motivated researcher dedicated to hearing, uplifting, and celebrating the voices of student writers.
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University Writing Center (OUWC) have evolved over the
past decade. Like many writing centers, when the OUWC first
opened in 2006, the university’s Writing and Rhetoric Department
offered a peer tutoring course focused on writing center pedagogy
and training students to become effective peer consultants.
However, in 2013, the course was re-classified and became a
general education requirement. With this change, the course
began to attract people who were interested in becoming teachers,
rather than becoming employed at the writing center (Cerku et al.,
2021). As a result, instead of becoming writing center consultants
after taking the course, most students moved on to their student
teaching placements. To mitigate this shift in recruitment, our
center developed a comprehensive training program in 2013,
entitled Consult Right (Cerku et al., 2021)[a][b]. The shift to
facilitating this training in-house was caused by multiple factors
at our institution, but given the significant enrollment decreases
stemming from the pandemic, other institutions may have been
forced to make similar transitions to accommodate budget cuts
(Kelchen et al., 2021; National Student Clearinghouse, 2020). Thus,
this study can be utilized by other writing centers facing such
challenges.
University Writing Center (OUWC) have evolved over the
past decade. Like many writing centers, when the OUWC first
opened in 2006, the university’s Writing and Rhetoric Department
offered a peer tutoring course focused on writing center pedagogy
and training students to become effective peer consultants.
However, in 2013, the course was re-classified and became a
general education requirement. With this change, the course
began to attract people who were interested in becoming teachers,
rather than becoming employed at the writing center (Cerku et al.,
2021). As a result, instead of becoming writing center consultants
after taking the course, most students moved on to their student
teaching placements. To mitigate this shift in recruitment, our
center developed a comprehensive training program in 2013,
entitled Consult Right (Cerku et al., 2021)[a][b]. The shift to
facilitating this training in-house was caused by multiple factors
at our institution, but given the significant enrollment decreases
stemming from the pandemic, other institutions may have been
forced to make similar transitions to accommodate budget cuts
(Kelchen et al., 2021; National Student Clearinghouse, 2020). Thus,
this study can be utilized by other writing centers facing such
challenges.