4/3 Emi

Research is an essential tool in hoping for change, improvement, or better knowledge or awareness about an issue. Making connections between my specialization (L2 online peer review) and the Writing Center, I am very interested in online tutoring, and in particular, the affordances that different software, platforms, or perspective may provide to the writers. 

For example, I found very inspiring the article we read from Tim Remington about how online feedback can be extremely rich when taken from a different perspective, and Deidre too had really good insights on this topic. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an open bank where you can find these issues explained and exemplified, so other people can use them too?

Another idea I had was combining the medium of interaction. Research in peer review has shown how students’ performance is maximized when we combine different forms of feedback (face-to-face, online, oral, written). How would it be if students had the option/motivation to follow-up a face-to-face appointment with an online follow up (e.g. a quick chat conversation)?  


Finally, I am very interested in the use and development of software that focuses on giving and receiving feedback. Turnitin, with the option for PeerMark, has made great improvements in this aspect. However, I think there much needs to be done that is specific to Writing Centers.

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