Response 8/26/15

I want to learn to tutor mainly to improve my own writing. I've spent a lot of time learning as much as I can about writing in a concise way but I still believe that helping someone else is the best way to improve a skill. I figure the WWC is the best place to improve my own writing while helping others. I've personally only had one experience with tutoring at FSU but I remember that my tutor was a senior in the English department who explained to me her strategy for organizing her writing that I still use today. 

The writing center's best asset to the university is peer tutoring. The ability to work one on one with a student that understands all the aspects of student life and all the expectations of professors is amazing.

I didn’t consider myself as a potential writer until a professor told me that an essay of mine was incredibly well written. Clichéd yes, but after that class I began to look at earlier essays I wrote and realized I might be able to refine the skill to be useful or profitable. I started out with a surprising amount of confidence until I took an actual upper level English class and learned how atrocious my writing was in the English circle. I remember that most lessons came in the form of failing papers or losing points on dumb mistakes. My main goal with taking this class is to help other writers realize these lessons and rules early to make them better writers before they even turn in their first paper. It also doesn’t hurt that I’m already the proofreader for my friends and I find the practice to be sort of calming.