Course Discussions: Group #5 Humaira, Natasha, Garri (3)

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While the multi-step process is a great tool for learning how to better develop ideas and ultimately a better paper, the author visiting the writing center often is not receptive to any process being implemented that looks at the paper as a long-term project and not as a finished product that only needs some polishing. To try and correct such thinking the writing consultant often finds himself assuming a more adversarial role where he must identify his purpose as a tutor--often chanting the axiom "we work to build better writers not better texts"--which usually quells resistance, but it certainly does not change students' minds about what it means to write or about when a finished product is produced. Professor Gleason is right in saying the idea of a process is revolutionary for many students, but like Judith Summerfield says in Writing Centers a Long View, making the process "institutionalized" is also a bad idea which will disconnects the steps from each other and disconnects the writer from the fluidness of revision.