This is a text that was written over the course of several years of collecting tutors' journals, reflective papers, and logs. The stories of many tutors, from Marquette, from MIT, and from Boston University, are included. The course also requires two books of readings and a book on style, as well as additional readings on reserve in the library. We look at writer's block and writer-based prose. We examine and reflect on our own processes of composing and our own writing.
Students reflect with one another weekly in an online journal, in addition to class discussion.
At the end of the semester, tutors are chosen by the writing center director and hired for the following semester. Tutors are generally free to set their own work schedule.