Community is a central part of a writing center. The community of collective participants, including the peer tutors and both those who are seeking help is what creates this unique space. On the part of the peer tutor, there needs to be support, openness, and communication while the peer being tutored plays an integral part by being a team player and participating in the session. Without this "give and take" type relationship, a writing center cannot develop the necessary environment to create and produce a helpful atmosphere, one that a community needs to be successful.
The community aspect of the writing center is what makes that space more than just a place to drop off a paper to be edited, it becomes a center in which discourse and actual teaching can take place. This allows the student benefitting to leave with more than just a paper that has be freed from grammatical errors but rather a better understanding of writing as a whole and how to stylized his/her own voice, while still efficiently answering any prompt that may be presented to them.
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