8/31 Response

     The role of community in the writing center is extremely important. Community is what makes the writing center flourish and gives it the crucial sense of support and teamwork, the two things that make up the very foundation of a community. Without a community to both tutor and be tutored in the writing center, the writing center would not even exist.
     The relationship between audience, community, and the peer tutor is a relationship that thrives on learning both from being taught and while teaching. The community is related to the audience because the community is the most observant of the writing center, the audience relates to the peer tutor because they benefit from the tutor the most, and the peer tutor relates both to the audience and the community because their contributions are what benefit all parties monumentally. The main relationship between all three parties, however, is bound by the incessant and unstoppable need to learn and to improve. The writing center is what makes these things possible.