-How might the expectations of the writing center among international students differ? Among students? Cultures?
Bedford Guide
-Is it really beneficial to try to"culturize" your tutoring style to each individual student? Wouldn't it teach them more to stick to your own practices and teach them something?
St. Martin's Sourcebook: International students might have a certain view of what a writing center should be, simply by the name and by there knowledge of our culture. They might expect it to be more of a fix-it-shop, rather than a peer to peer process in which learning is reciprocal and the ideas are the writers, not the tutors. It is natural for this disparity to exist between cultures, and it will take time and understanding to help students understand the writing center and the best ways to make use of it.
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