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Anxiety At John Carroll: Why Developmental Writers Avoid The Writing Center, Emily Tomusko Apr 2018

Anxiety At John Carroll: Why Developmental Writers Avoid The Writing Center, Emily Tomusko

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This paper describes the underlying issues and attempts to offer a possible remedy John Carroll University’s developmental writing students’ lack of engagement with the campus Writing Center. While developmental writing students across the United States visit their respective writing centers frequently, these students at JCU do not visit at the same pace. In this project, I draw from class surveys of student writers, from class visits, and from tracking student consultations at the Writing Center to learn why developmental writers do not visit as often as their EN 125 counterparts. In doing so, I argue that JCU’s developmental writing students …