ERIC Number: EJ1435312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0889-6143
EISSN: EISSN-2832-9414
Decolonizing Tutor and Writing Center Administrative Labor: An Autoethnography of a South Asian Writing Center's Personnel
Saurabh Anand
Writing Center Journal, v42 n1 Article 7 p107-123 2024
This piece informs my journey of thinking and contextualizing the validity of autoethnography as a decolonial qualitative research method in writing center scholarship. This piece provides the lilt of everyday writing center initiatives, labor, and workings using five email exchanges as data depicting my interactions with various writing center stakeholders as a transnational writing center studies student-tutor, administrator, and doctoral student from South Asia, specifically India. This piece also argues how I used my experiences as one of a writing center's personnel as a tool of empowerment in my liminal position in my writing center and elaborates on those experiences, broadening the scope of research trajectories and mediums within writing center scholarship using counternarratives in the existing literature.
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Professional Personnel, Tutors, Administrators, Doctoral Students, Indians, Student Empowerment, Decolonization
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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