Some Concerns

Most of what I'd like to touch on in my blog post has already been addressed by others in one form or another, so while this may seem a bit repetitive, I at least feel better that others are having similar feelings and I hope my post has the same effect on them. My first worry revolves around confidence. What I know is that I like writing, I'm generally pretty good at writing, and I like helping others with their writing. What I don't know is whether I can actually cut it as a solid, helpful, writing tutor. I tend to lack confidence as a general rule, especially in academia. It just always seems like there are SO MANY students who could kick my butt in any test of knowledge, intelligence, skill, etc. which leads me to wonder how I could possibly possess the expertise neccessary to improve the writing of others. I'm really excited to start work at the WC, but it took a pretty big leap for me to take this class, and to believe that I could, hopefully, potentially, be a successful writing tutor.

My second concern revolves more around class discussion and our readings from this past week. Like many have expressed so far, the idea of a "multiliteracies center" sounds fantastic, but I just don't see how it's possible. When I imagine the ideal scenario for a center that can address basically any concern from paper writing to website building, I imagine a huge gymnasium-sized room, sectioned off into several different categories with cubicles and computers and any piece of technology you could imagine. You'd walk in, tell a receptionist what kind of assitance you need, and be directed to the area that specializes in that skill. I guess I feel that right now, paper writing is still such a huge part of university academics, that we can't afford to give up any of our Writing Center time, space, and resources to anything else. It would be fabulous to have a center or centers to devote to all these different forms of writing, rhetoric, design, etc. but we'd need so much more than what we currently have to work with. But I'll readily admit, I am new to the Writing Center entirely, and so I have very little knowledge on what goes on and what resources we DO have, and so I could be way off here. But at any rate, I hope that the multiliteracy center will eventually be a reality, whether we need to adapt our current center to fit or whether more resources will need to be funded in order to make that a reality.