Creative and Communicative Integrity

Our research is a combination of two ethnographic, qualitative case studies. Our research objective focuses on incentivizing creative writers to utilize the Writing Center, constructing tutoring sessions specifically designed to focus on the perspective and voice of these writers, and how to keep these writers coming back. We study volunteer students, who commit to regularly attend tutorials, and interview for feedback that is compiled and shared with creative writers on campus with the hope that these writers will be motivated to collaborate in tutorials. We further analyze the students’ feedback to create a presentation for ENG 395 courses, the writing intensive English internship that trains Writing Center tutors. In this presentation, we discuss why these tutorials need to be structured differently depending on the writer, which methods are considered successful and unsuccessful by each student, and how to continue incentivizing new writers to come to the Writing Center.

Faculty Mentor: Paige Mitchell

Co-authors: Emma Barnes