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While I admit I was once intrigued by the prostitute-consultant analogy, not by what Scott Russell had to say about it but by some of the ideas we threw around in class the other day, I can honestly say, now, that I am beginning to move away from the metaphor. While I once connected prostitution and the writing center through their brief meetings and levels of intimacy, I now question the nature of those meetings and the levels of intimacy available, and like David said in class, I agree that the comparison is a stretch. Here’s where I struggle with a connection between meeting a stranger, a prostitute, for sex, and meeting a consultant at the writing center. Although the ‘client,’ ‘student,’ or whatever, meets with a stranger for a limited period time to meet a specific desire, the level of intimacy between sex with a prostitute and a writing consultation differs. It is my experience that consultations between peers can be genuinely intimate as one discusses personal thoughts—there i…
a haiku must have
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a beautiful scheme
"Haikus are easy
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Refrigerator."
I'm quoting this from
a shirt I saw on Threadless:
How do I cite it?
I can't reach the Writing Center Haiku Project via the posted link. Can you fix the problem? My peer tutors are eager to read what's on the site.
ReplyDeleteI think the Haiku project has closed for submissions. The OP presented at the recent IWCA conference. Your best bet is to contact him directly.
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