Tick-Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center

Anne Ellen Geller

doi:10.7771/2832-9414.1569

Writing Center Journal 2005 web Open Access

Tick-Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center

Anne Ellen Geller Clark University

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In this world , there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding , predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along. -Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman Every now and then in our writing center staff meetings, I pile crayons, magic mark ers, colored pencils and a stack of white paper in the middle of the table. For the first fifteen minutes, the graduate student tutors draw pictures. There is no prompt beyon "draw a picture of a conference you're left thinking about from this week." Sometime the drawing time is silent. I watch the geographers and economists and women s studies scholars bite at their lips and furrow their brows as they work in an unfamiliar perhaps -forgotten medium.

Journal: Writing Center Journal
Published: 2005
DOI: 10.7771/2832-9414.1569
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