Sara Saylor and Tom Lindsay sit down with Praxis to chat about their experiences consulting with graduate student writers, the difficulties and rewards of working with this community, and the state of graduate student support in writing centers, particularly at UT.
Read More"I’ve been in tearful consultations with 6th-year students who wonder whether they’ll ever finish and in feverishly optimistic writing-feedback groups. I’ve presided over more than 700 student work hours of writing retreats and facilitated 16 writing groups and held dozens of one-on-one consultations about everything from advisor management to the tricky use of indefinite articles in American Academic English. I’ve waded through the recent explosion in research about graduate writers and even more explosive polemics about them."
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