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By David Aitchison.<\/strong><\/em> Hear David read this blog post with his wonderful accent.<\/a> A few weeks ago, I had an appointment in our Main Writing Center with a sophomore, Amanda, who was working on her application essays for the Business School. With just a thirty-minute slot to look at three 250-word essays we had little time to waste. I remember three things in particular. First, it was fun \u2013 one of those sessions that gallop by because it\u2019s late in the day and the two of you have the sillies, though that doesn\u2019t stop you from thinking sensibly and strategically. Second, it was easy \u2013 Amanda was the kind of student who, even if she didn\u2019t know it herself at first, was bursting with all the right ideas that, as I saw it, were exactly what her essays needed. Third, as we were wrapping up, she confessed that, much to her relief, coming to the Writing Center was nothing like she\u2019d expected. \u201cYou know,\u201d she said, with a bit of a blush, \u201chow everyone\u2019s ALWAYS nervous about coming to the Writing Center for the first time. It\u2019s daunting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m now near the end of my second semester of working in the Writing Center, I guess I\u2019m used to meeting students who are a tad nervous when they first show up. Who out there, after all, wouldn\u2019t feel at least a little trepidation in having a complete stranger look at your writing and getting a glimpse of the way your mind works \u2013 seeing what rouses your curiosity, what perplexes you, or what gets lost in translation in the journey from headspace to paper? Whether a first semester undergrad or a visiting post-doc, sharing writing in progress is not something to be taken for granted \u2013 a fact I\u2019ve learned for myself as both a student writer and an instructor. But knowing all this hadn\u2019t prepared me for Amanda telling me that \u201ceveryone\u201d is nervous: as if there\u2019s a culture of nervous anticipation out there on campus, something anthropologists or sociologists could pinpoint, explain, and give a structural analysis of; as if a first visit to the Writing Center is only the latest in a long line of potentially humiliating but ultimately rewarding rites of passage \u2013 like, say, adolescence, only thankfully swifter and without the mood swings.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, ever since, I\u2019ve been thinking about what it could mean to be daunted by the Writing Center. Seeing as I\u2019m a PhD student in Literary Studies (dissertating on \u201cRadical Politics and the Novel in the U.S.A.\u201d), I decided it wouldn\u2019t hurt to define my terms: so I turned to the Oxford English Dictionary to get a better grip on what it means to be daunted, period. To daunt, in its current sense, means \u201cto abate the courage of, discourage, dispirit; to put in awe, abash; to overcome with fear, intimidate, cause to quail.\u201d Not quite the vocabulary that comes to mind when we imagine campus roomies confessing they\u2019re contemplating a first visit to the Writing Center. Apart from one brief moment in the 14th century, when it meant \u201cto dandle, fondle, caress,\u201d and another in the 16th when it meant \u201cto toy,\u201d daunting has more or less consistently denoted acts of subduing, vanquishing, taming, breaking in, bringing into subjection, casting down, putting down, quelling, and (as noted) causing to quail. It should go without saying, but I\u2019ll say it anyway, that as useful a skill set as this might be, it\u2019s not quite what we go in for in the Writing Center. Indeed, far from it.<\/p>\n

In fact, it needs said that, as Writing Center instructors, we go out of our way to not be daunting \u2013 as students and scholars in Literary Studies, Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistics, Creative Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, and so on, we understand exactly how hard it is to share any writing that\u2019s not quite resolved \u2013 writing that\u2019s still messy, raw, or simply not representative of what we think we can actually accomplish. But we\u2019re also conscious that we\u2019re here as experts in our field \u2013 as expert readers and writers \u2013 which in itself can be intimidating. It\u2019s with this in mind that I deliberately ham up my being Scottish: apart from the fact it makes me far more glamorous than all my American colleagues (sorry, gang), for some reason it makes me more approachable. It\u2019s as if there\u2019s some sort of affinity to be found in coming as a foreign national to the U.S.A. and making that first trek to the Writing Center \u2013 as if we\u2019re both curiosities and neither quite \u201cat home\u201d \u2013 an analogy I won\u2019t stretch any further since I\u2019m completely at home, thank you very much, in the U.S.A. Unless you count those moments when I\u2019m in the sandwich shop and no-one knows what I mean by tomAHto until I say tomAYto.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also important to remember that we instructors, as instructors, are often just as anxious, though for different reasons. In a typical 3 hour shift, for example, I\u2019ll see up to six students, where my ongoing task is not to \u2018fix\u2019 or \u2018correct\u2019 but to try to pass on skills that students can use to tackle their own fixing and correcting. But with sometimes only half an hour to get to know my students, find out what they need help with, read their work, make some sort of diagnosis, and finally offer strategies for revision \u2013 it can seem, dare I say, daunting. Add the fact that students are usually writing about highly specialized topics \u2013 from force sensors in bone-adjusting technologies to nutrient filtration processes in the dairy industry, from Buddhist prescriptions on vegetarianism to shock factors in commercial marketing after 9\/11 \u2013 and you\u2019ll appreciate that the playoff between being an expert and feeling a little out of one\u2019s depth, goes both ways in the Writing Center.<\/p>\n

\"fish\"So does this mean I\u2019m suggesting that we instructors are all quailing \u2013 that (to deploy a few synonyms from the OED\u2019s historical thesaurus) we\u2019re \u201cbashed,\u201d \u201cblue,\u201d and \u201cover-faced\u201d? Well, no. Because I don\u2019t think any of us, whether students or instructors, are truly daunted. To say we find the writing and tutoring process daunting seems tantamount to acknowledging that the stakes, along with our mental energies, are high \u2013 both potentially good signs, provided we know how to channel those energies and think practically and realistically about our expectations. My real objection to the word is that it suggests an insurmountable power differential: as an action verb, it needs a subject who daunts and an object to be daunted. This fatally passive condition of what it means to be daunted is perhaps best illustrated by a practice in the herring fishery, in which salted herrings are pressed into a barrel with a \u201cdaunt\u201d (OED). My point, then, and I think you\u2019ll find it hard to disagree, is that none of us are herrings.<\/p>\n

If there is a culture of anticipation here on campus, in which students talk about mustering the courage to make their first appointments to the Writing Center, our ultimate task must be to make sure that culture soaks up a vocabulary truer to what actually happens once students and instructors come face to face \u2013 in what\u2019s more often than not a mutual exchange of inspiration, invigoration, and encouragement. Indeed, this has to be the last word: never daunting, always encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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