I feel like saying writing studies as a whole is miss this is a complete lie, but I can’t help but feel nagged over and over again that I feel like the thing missing from this field, the thing that is not visible, is the people who exist within it. Writing center scholarship is taking baby steps to mend this—trying to center the voices of the tutors who (objectively speaking) are on the front-lines doing the work that people keep writing about. And though there have been some cases of reading the experiences of teachers—like in the Karios piece I read—I wish there was more of that when talking about composition too.

This kind of thing has been a shift while reading things this quarter. I’m so used to reading things where students and tutors (specifically) are at the center of what the writing center is and what kind of work is valued and the research that is there, but I don’t feel like we really looked at teacher’s experiences in that kind of a situation this quarter in writing studies, and that a little bit of a bummer.

I feel like what I brought with me from the writing center was a drive to be student centric in my approach to teaching and I wish there was more students and more teacher voices and not just the voices of people who design the things and think about the things.