Final Blog

My final blog entry, where can I begin?
Looking back on this semester and the course as a whole it is very satisfying to be able to see my own growth as a student and a consultant, but also our growth as whole class of students and now co-workers. I can remember those very hot August and September evenings when we would all sit down, and not have much at all to say about tutoring styles and writing center theory. Through our book projects, our bloging, the wiki posts (as minimal as they were), our observing, our co-consulting and solo consulting, our extensive literacy project, and lastly our final projects. I can honestly say that I have grown because of this class. I feel that I am much more confident in myself as a writer and as a writing consultant. I also have discovered that I enjoy creative writing. This class pushed me into many new directions and into many new fields and approaches. It gave me an opportunity/required me to write creatively, which I probably would not have chosen to do if I had the option. This class also forced me to work with more creative aspects of technology that I had never explored and understood too much in the past. Just my final project – a brochure of correct comma uses and common mistakes – shows my newfound competency with technology and technical aspects of grammar.

Overall, I feel like this course has undoubtedly helped shape my technology literacies, my writing ability, my writing confidence, and more than anything my confidence and ability as a writing consultant. I’m looking forward to getting started as a tutor!