Audrey Johnson

In my tutoring, I have had the opportunity to meet with a handful of students. At first, each session felt a bit hectic as I tried to understand my purpose in the writing center and provide adequate support to the students. Now that I’ve better adjusted to them, each session has felt smoother and honestly more fun, which is not how I thought I would describe the process when I first started. I’ve gained a lot from the experience, not only I the form of personal confidence, but also as resources and perspectives I didn’t know about. being a tutor forces me to view assignments in a way I wouldn’t have as a student, and this perspective is really useful when applied to my own assignments outside of tutoring sessions. I don’t think my existing goals as a tutor changed much, but I added a new goal. I still want to improve the writing of students in my tutoring sessions, while also hopefully improving my own writing, but I also want to encourage the students, who are forced to go to the writing center, to feel more comfortable with the process and gain a better understanding of what the writing center has to offer. I want the students, who were not using the writing center, to choose to come back.