Blog # 2 Lunsford and Collaboration

Lunsford felt passionately about the effects of collaborative work in writing centers. She spoke of Writing Centers becoming a place where students and tutors could work together to produce written work.
What she did not want was the writing centers becoming "classrooms", instead of a place that embraced each student's unique writing needs.

She argued collaboration breeds the following:

Aids in problem solving
Learning abstractions
Critical thinking
Transfer of knowledge
Greater achievement

The writing center should be a meeting of the minds and various levels (tutor and student, tutors and leaders). Simultaneously, leaders should ensure the respective efforts. She made a point to say control, power and authority would basically be shared by those who utilize the center.

I agree with the last sentence, simply put -if writing center policies are based on those who use it, tutor and those who manage it, it will evolve continuously to meet the needs of its students.