The question
That was the question posed to our writers last spring. What’s your response?
According to the SLCC
Community Writing
Center , mentors direct conversations, collect
member feedback, identify strategies that work, listen for members’ wants and
needs, and share information with SLCC Community Writing Center
A visiting mentor posed this question: "What is the group looking for in terms of a mentor?"
We used this question as our writing “warm up.” Here
were our group members' responses to this open-ended statement, “A good mentor…”
How do our
responses compare to your response?
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| Draft of a Story |
Our response
A good mentor…
§ needs
to know the meaning of education.
§ must
open our minds to help us learn.
§ knows
what I have to know.
§ doesn’t
do the work, but guides the work, based on what we want or need.
§ comes
prepared, not just with plans and lessons to move our group forward, but also comes prepared to abandon or modify those plans based on auditory and visual feedback
from group members.
§ figures
out how to include all of our wants, needs, and concerns, without excluding any
of us.
§ is
passionate about writing.
§ makes
us feel motivated to learn and improve.
§ gives
us hard words to read, spell, and write.
§ asks lots of questions, listens to responses, and connects us to resources to help us
meet our goals.
§ directs
our conversation to stay positive and writing based.
§ learns
as much as, if not more than, the group members.
§ is
also a viable group member.
§ helps
us write stories and fix our spellings.
Call to Action
We are looking for excellent mentors and tutors.
Our writing mentors come to us through SLCC Community
Writing Center Salt Lake City .
Interested? Contact them.
You will be awesome!
(Are you looking for a good writing group? Check out the
writing groups sponsored by SLCC Community Writing Center. Or, search the
web for writing groups sponsored by other writing organizations.)
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