North & North

North’s first article seemed very . . . ambitious. He sounded pretty angry and concerned with the way writing centers are viewed. I don’t know how I feel about it. No, I don’t think that writing centers should be used as fix-it places, but I think that society / professors have placed a huge emphasis on grammar / punctuation / spelling. Ultimately, the professors are the ones doing the grading and determining whether students will pass the class, so if a student is looking for good mechanics, why shouldn’t that be the focus of the paper when going to the tutoring center? If the student feels like he/she needs help with those kinds of issues, the tutor should help them with it. At the end of the day, the writing center needs to meet the needs of the students.