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2018
Volume 52, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356
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Abstract

This article examines two-year college peer writing tutors’ preparedness for the emotional labor of writing center work. Through stories, this multivocal piece shares the experiences of nine current and former peer tutors from a writing center at a large midwestern technical college and challenges the narrative of two-year colleges as remedial spaces.

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