Boquet, "Intellectual Tug of War: Snapshots of Life in the Center"

Boquet, like Latterell and Hobson, finds that writing center theory and practice sometimes contradict each other. Boquet locates the contradiction in the conflicting roles tutors are asked to play and the different types of authority each role implies. In describing one difficult tutoring session, she says, “I was caught between my knowledge as a professional, my responsibility to students, and my precarious position as a graduate assistant in an ancillary university service” (21). She points out that peer tutors are alienated from their peers by virtue of being chosen to tutor, so that they occupy a hazy border space.

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