Graduate Students as Writing Tutors: Role Conflict and the Nature of Professionalization (original) (raw)

Weaving Knowledge Together: …, 2004

Abstract

Like many collaborations, this chapter grew out of many conversations. Unlike some collaborations, however, this one was among three graduatestudent writing tutors. The issues we discuss—how the roles of tutor, teacher, and student overlap and conflict around the topic of" expert knowledge" and whether tutors can be thought of as" professionals"—are concerns perhaps more germane to graduate students than to undergraduate peer tutors. On the verge of simultaneously joining academic departments as full-fledged members ...

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