Monday, August 20, 2012

Welcome!

Hi all.

Welcome to the Writing Center and to the ENGL 3840 blog.  We've been keeping this blog for nearly 10 years, and you will find in it a treasure trove of responses from your peers, both past and present.

Since the beginning, I have asked the incoming tutors one question: what are you most nervous about with regard to tutoring? What scares you? What keeps you up at night as you think about the hoards of ENGL 1010 papers you'll be dealing with?

What I'd like to see you do here in your first post is to look back through those first blog posts (use the history links on the right [click the ones in late August of each year]) and write a post about what kinds of responses your predecessors composed.  What do they tend to be nervous about? Are they similar to or different from your worries? How?