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- Title
What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project.
- Authors
Hughes, Bradley; Gillespie, Paula; Kail, Harvey
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project (PWTARP), which explores and documents what peer tutors have learned from their training and experience. The research has made it possible that the reflections of 126 former tutors from the University of Maine, Marquette University, and the University of Wisconsin in Madison are sampled and analyzed more systematically. It uses the arguments of Kenneth Bruffee concerning liberal education and tutoring to define liberal education, as well as the definition of the objectives of a liberal education by William Cronon. It concludes that writing centers were able to place themselves as a key to the education mission of colleges and universities through the help of systematic tutor alumni research.
- Subjects
MADISON (Wis.); WISCONSIN; TRAINING of tutors; TUTORING services; GENERAL education; WRITING centers; EDUCATIONAL objectives; BRUFFEE, Kenneth; CRONON, William; UNIVERSITY of Maine; MARQUETTE University; UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.)
- Publication
Writing Center Journal, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 2, p12
- ISSN
0889-6143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7771/2832-9414.1671