{"id":3105,"date":"2013-01-28T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2013-01-28T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T20:20:01","slug":"looking-gorgias-coming-to-be-in-the-online-writing-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/looking-gorgias-coming-to-be-in-the-online-writing-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Gorgias: Coming to Be in the Online Writing Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3107\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3107\" src=\"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-on-2012-12-06-at-1209-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The view from my webcam. I'd like to think that the cat calendar makes things cozy.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/em><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from my webcam. I&#39;d like to think that the cat calendar makes things cozy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Anne Wheeler is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric. Her research tends to focus on rhetorical artifacts produced in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She is also a TA Assistant Director of the UW-Madison English 100 program and has worked for the Writing Center since Fall 2011.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Perhaps  it\u2019s because I\u2019m reading for my preliminary exams, but I\u2019ve been  thinking a lot about the sophists lately. The sophists are enticing  figures from the classical world who made their livings and reputations  by traveling through the city states teaching oratory and other subjects  for a fee. The accessibility of their teachings, among other things,  raised some hackles amongst the more elite philosophers of the day. \u00a0When I first  started thinking about sophistry, I had trouble understanding the  vehemently low regard in which their contemporaries held the sophists.  \u00a0In trying to wrap my brain around the sophistic reputation, I found  myself looking for the sophists\u2019 contemporary parallel and in so doing, I  recalled my own consternation regarding the ever-expanding field of  online education.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Just as Socrates talks Gorgias and his guests into the corner in Plato\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Gorgias<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">,  I\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3106\" src=\"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorgias-socrates.jpg\" alt=\"gorgias-socrates\" width=\"180\" height=\"223\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">d bored more than one party guest with my well rehearsed rant  masquerading as an inquiry into whether or not one could actually learn  writing in a virtual space. My rants usually reached a crescendo when I  got to writing center work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">\u201cThat\u2019s  so much about the paper and the interaction. The humanity of it all, oh  the humanity! Or not the humanity, because the machine just takes that  away!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">At  this point, it\u2019s worth noting that every time I read a Platonic  dialogue, I inevitably end up writing rude words about Socrates in the  margins, so as much as I am apparently drawn to ranting, I didn\u2019t want  to be like him. And that\u2019s how I found myself, sitting in a circle with  Mike Shapiro, coordinator of the UW-Madison Online Writing Center,  expressing my anxiety over my appointment to our online \u201csynch\u201d writing  center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">\u201cI\u2019m  not sure how I feel about online education,\u201d I remember telling the  group. \u201cIt worries me, and so I want to experience it so that I can  explain my critique better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Um\u2026 welcome to the staff, Anne?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">In  order to avoid setting myself up as the total straw-Anne in this story,  it\u2019s worth noting that I was not alone in my anxious distrust of the  online writing center. In his forward to Beth Hewett\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">The Online Writing Conference<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">,  Michael A. Pemberton confesses, \u201cthe thought of online tutoring gives  me\u2014for want of a better phrase\u2014the heebie jeebies.\u201d Additionally, in  their 2009 article \u201cBetween Technological Endorsement and Resistance:  The State of Online Writing Centers,\u201d which appeared in <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">The Writing Center Journal<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">,  Stephen Neaderhiser and Joanna Wolfe note that \u201c[\u2026] even as writing  centers are being encouraged to embrace new technology, there are ways  that this technology challenges the traditional ethos of the writing  center\u201d (50). This traditional ethos has something to do, I think, with  the humanity of the interaction that I mentioned above, which Pemberton  nicely describes as, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">being<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\"> with people [\u2026] seeing their faces, hearing their voices, reading their body language, experiencing a strong sense of <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">presence<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\"> as we talk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">As  I approached my early online sessions, I was keenly aware of how the  technology stood to interfere with the in-person interactions that I  held so dear. The announcement that we were going to be using video  conferences as much as possible did not assuage this anxiety. I came of  age in the 1990s, and so I felt confident in my ability to negotiate a  text-based chat despite the fact that it has never been my preferred  form of communication. But I was horrified by the notion of video  chatting. In addition to the fact that I would now actually have keep  the stretch of my apartment visible though my webcam clean, the  transition to video conferences also meant that I would need to  regularly use a form of technology that made me feel uncomfortable.  Surrounding all of these superficial anxieties was the idea that my  previous writing center teaching was successful as a result of the  conversation and that the mediated environment would inhibit my ability  to have real, meaningful conversations about writing. If I wasn\u2019t  comfortable in the space, would I be able to teach effectively?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Pemberton\u2019s emphasis on <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">being with<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\"> people brings to mind Martin Heidegger\u2019s notion of Dasein, which the  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy summarizes as a \u201clabel for the  distinctive <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">mode<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\"> of Being realized by human beings.\u201d If Dasein is a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">mode of being<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">,  then perhaps when considering online interactions in general, and  online writing center sessions more specifically, it is worth  considering modes of being. \u00a0As I began to think more critically about  online writing center sessions, it became clear that I would need to  work to develop ways of finding the human connections, which in-person  instruction let me locate through body language and aural cues, in a  mediated environment. I needed to find a new way of being in virtual  space. I needed to look at how I made connections in person and work to  translate or adapt these methods to the online space. \u00a0I needed to  consider the role of notes and writing things down might change when a  student and I both had simultaneous editing privileges for a shared  document. \u00a0I also needed to deal with my own discomfort with working and  communicating online. For many of our students, instant messaging and  Skype-ing are comfortable. If a foundation of writing center pedagogy is  that we work to meet students where they are, I have begun to think  that I should also meet students how they are, even if it\u2019s not how I  am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Currently,  our online writing center uses a combination of Skype and Google  Documents to<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3108\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3108\" src=\"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2013-01-28-at-83943-am-150x150.png\" alt=\"A dramatized recreation of a session.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dramatized recreation of a session.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>generate face-to-face sessions where both student and tutor  are able to simultaneously view and edit the same document. By the end  of my first semester working with this combination, I had finally gotten  used to the online space and the technology was running well enough  that I felt extremely tempted to declare that it was JUST LIKE being in  the in-person center. And in fact, when I offered to write this blog  post, I expected that to be the main takeaway. However, the more I think  about it, the more I find the conclusion that an online writing center  session can be the same as an in-person meeting unsatisfactory. Of  course there will be resemblances, but we also need to figure out what  the online center can bring to the table that main center can\u2019t. For me,  something about having electronic drafts in front of me has led me to  invite students do more writing within the session. I will also use the  chat feature on a shared Google document to transcribe a students  thoughts and ideas, which is a great way to capture some of the out loud  drafting that they do during a session. One of my favorite moments in  an online session occurred when a student stepped away from his  computer, grabbed a glass of water, and came back to the table ready to  reapproach the questions we were grappling with. Jackie Grutsch McKinney  has written about the ubiquity of metaphors of home within the writing  center discourse; rather than constructing or replicating such safe and  welcoming places for students, the online writing center allows them to  work from their own space. This aspect of the online writing space has a  huge amount of potential for welcoming or recruiting students who might  otherwise be intimidated by the in-person interaction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">Unlike  Plato\u2019s Socrates, who was kind of a jerk, I am willing to revise my  opinion on online pedagogy. In fact, I have come to really, really love  the online writing center. I\u2019ve begun to understand that the humanity of  the writing center conference, which I defended so strongly, isn\u2019t  inextricably tied to being in the same physical space. Rather, it  emerges from the interactions that we have with students, their  generosity in sharing writing in progress, and the conversations that  arise in and around that writing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Wheeler is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric. Her research tends to focus on rhetorical artifacts produced in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She is also a TA Assistant Director of the UW-Madison English 100 program and has worked for the Writing Center since Fall 2011. 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