{"id":6888,"date":"2008-01-24T20:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/like-so-many-mu\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T20:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:45:51","slug":"like-so-many-mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/like-so-many-mu\/","title":{"rendered":"Like So Many Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>To prepare for an orientation meeting in the Writing Center tomorrow, today I<br \/>\nleafed back through North&#8217;s &quot;The Idea of a Writing Center,&quot; which is on the<br \/>\nshort list of recommended readings that will be used to prime the conversation<br \/>\nin the meeting. I suppose this just proves what I&#8217;d already suspected: I<br \/>\nhaven&#8217;t been reading nearly enough lately, but I find North&#8217;s 1984 <i>CE<\/i><br \/>\nessay both funny and edgy in a drop-the-gauntlets sort of way. His intensity<br \/>\nshows; he is not bored with what he is writing. Consider this passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People make similar remarks [about error] all of the time, stopping me or<br \/>\n\tmembers of my [Writing Center] staff in the halls or calling us into<br \/>\n\toffices, to discuss&#8211;in hushed tones, frequently&#8211;their current &quot;impossible&quot;<br \/>\n\tor difficult students. There was a time, I will confess, when I let my<br \/>\n\tfrustration get the better of me. I would be more or less combative,<br \/>\n\tconfrontational, challenging the instructor&#8217;s often well-intentioned but not<br \/>\n\tvery useful &quot;diagnosis.&quot; We no longer bother with such confrontations; they<br \/>\n\tnever worked out very well, and they risk undermining the genuine compassion<br \/>\n\tour teachers have for the students they single out. Nevertheless,<br \/>\n\ttheir behavior makes it clear that for them, a writing center is to<br \/>\n\tilliteracy what a cross between Lourdes and a hospice would be to serious<br \/>\n\tillness: one goes there hoping for miracles, but ready to face the<br \/>\n\tinevitable. In their minds, clearly, writers fall into three fairly distinct<br \/>\n\tgroups: the talented, the average, and the others; and the Writing Center&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tonly logical <i>raison d&#8217;etre<\/i> must be to handle those others&#8211;those, as<br \/>\n\tthe flyer proclaims, with &quot;special problems.&quot; (435)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>North also spars with Maxine Hairston&#8217;s off-handed remarks about writing<br \/>\ncenters in her &quot;Winds of Change&quot; essay, where she writes, &quot;Among the first<br \/>\nresponses were the writing centers that sprang up about ten years ago [1972] to<br \/>\ngive first aid to students who seemed unable to function within the traditional<br \/>\nparadigm. Those labs are still with us, but they&#8217;re still only giving first aid<br \/>\nand treating symptoms. They have not solved the problem&quot; (82, qtd. in North).<br \/>\nNorth calls this a &quot;mistaken history&quot; (among other things); he tells of the<br \/>\nanger he felt in &quot;read[ing] one&#8217;s own professional obituary&quot; (436), and adds<br \/>\nthat &quot;her dismissal fails to lay the blame for these worst versions of writing<br \/>\ncenters on the right heads. According to her &#8216;sprang up&#8217; historical<br \/>\nsketch, these places simply appeared&#8211;like so many mushrooms?&#8211;to do battle with<br \/>\nilliteracy&quot; (437). <\/p>\n<p>The second half of the essay is more constructive; he details his vision for<br \/>\nthe <em>new<\/em> writing centers and how they hinge on professionalism,<br \/>\na nuanced understanding of process (also processual complexity), and principles<br \/>\nof writers rather than texts alone. 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