Me Teach Essay Making Real Good.

As you may or may not know (probably the latter) this is my second year working here: /www.queensu.ca/writingcentre





This year I got traded up to being a PAID member of the staff there, instead of volunteering there. ( One obviously led to the other, so I consider it time well-spent on a number of levels).


I really like the job, despite the occasional challenge of unravelling a student's thesis from the mass of disjointed sentences spread across a half dozen pages.


If there was to be ONE thing I'd change, were I in charge (and maybe with a bit more experience, I'd see that the system doesn't even need tweaking) it'd be the idea of actually having a formal course in tutoring; You just sort of sit in and after a session or two, they assume that since you're supposedly a hot shit Upper Year or Grad Student, YOU automatically know how to make the Froshies and 2Ys in your own image...


Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. What I seemingly, and I say this because it's seldom obvious even to me on the first go round, even after 10 (1o!!!) years in Uni...what I seemingly find is obvious to me is also hard to articulate to someone else...You often see these glaring structural issues and think "How can you THINK that there's a good, cogent argument in here???"