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Clients Who Frequent Madam Barnett's Emporium.
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Russell, Scott – Writing Center Journal, 1999
Develops a comparison between writing tutors and prostitutes. Suggests that the intimate arrangement of people that places one in the position of professional and the other in the position of client works against collaboration. (NH)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Higher Education, Technology, Tutorial Programs
Independence and Collaboration; Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers.
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Smith, Louise Z. – Writing Center Journal, 1986
Notes the inevitable tensions that arise between centripetal writing centers and centrifugal writing across the curriculum programs. Examines the tutoring program at an eastern university as an example of a decentralized writing center that resists pressures to assume a uniform composition pedagogy and coordinates its work with many parts of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Higher Education