In the writing center, community plays a huge part in entire atmosphere or perspective of the writing center as a whole. As explained in the Bruffee text, the writing center has become a success by not using professional tutors, but student tutors. This inevitably changed the “social context” in which students learned. Peer tutors are not just teachers, but equals to the students receiving tutoring. The writing center becomes a place of conversation—the tutors and students converse together, which creates a “community of knowledgeable peers.” The equal, conversational relationship between student and tutor is vital to the success of the writing center.
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