Just the Commas, Please

So how do you guys deal with it when someone comes in and just wants to go over their punctuation? I mean, I feel pretty capable to give them some quick advice on a few rules, even though Penny would discourage it. And I feel bad trying to force them to discuss content when that's not what they want.

Students really don't have anywhere to go to ask grammar (by which they usually mean punctuation) questions: writing teachers don't cover them, Erica's hours are extremely limited, and our lovely handouts can only take them so far. I know we're not an editing service, but what's a student supposed to do? I feel so bad for them. Ideas on how we can better deal with this?

The Secretaries Are Staging A Coup

I am glad to know the secretaries have been demoted to each being 1/3 of a person. You don't even know who is typing this! Is it Amy? Chelsea? Or that dashing, short girl Courtney? I realize we are all similarly intelligent, beautiful, and powerful, but I demand that we be given our own identities!

No, seriously-- is there a reason we are known as "the secretary" and not given our own individual blogging rights? I know we get paid less than you, but . . . come on.

Links of Interest; or, Things We Love

This is not vanity. I simply wish to record (for posterity and for all of you) Writing Center-related items that have appeared on my own blog.

We love BYUSA

We love cage fights
(This one could conceivably be expanded and posted here.)

We love Lina and Kjerstin
(I'd still appreciate input on this issue.)

We love good conversation

A Writing Center Blog, or What You Will

It's high time someone did this, so here I am doing it.

The main purposes of this blog are as follows:

• To provide a place for tutors to discuss their ideas about writing and tutoring;
• To share stories about the strange things that happen while working in the Writing Center;
• To have serious intellectual discussions about important world issues, such as world hunger and men's fashion accessories;
• To promote a greater sense of comradery and elitism amongst the intelligencia of the Writing Center;
  
• To promote cagematches between great literary and historical figures.

Make of it what you will.