“Is this going to be hard?": Reflections on My First Year Teaching Composition as a Writing Center Coordinator

1.0Another Wordhttps://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blogTabitha Fisherhttps://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/author/tabitha-fisher/“Is this going to be hard?": Reflections on My First Year Teaching Composition as a Writing Center Coordinator - Another Wordrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="sydu1tZFOw"><a href="https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/is-this-going-to-be-hard/">“Is this going to be hard?”: Reflections on My First Year Teaching Composition as a Writing Center Coordinator</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/is-this-going-to-be-hard/embed/#?secret=sydu1tZFOw" width="600" height="338" title="““Is this going to be hard?”: Reflections on My First Year Teaching Composition as a Writing Center Coordinator” — Another Word" data-secret="sydu1tZFOw" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/question-scaled.jpg25601707By Tabitha Fisher, Pennsylvania State University—It’s September 2022, and I’m standing at the front of my classroom, walking through the questions my students posted online in response to the new assignment. At Penn State, nearly all instructors new to the department teach English 15, the university’s first-year writing course in rhetoric and composition. This is my first semester teaching after two years as the Writing Center Coordinator. [...]