Chantelle Flores
Contact me at: chantelle.flores@maine.edu
Book an appointment with the Writing Center by clicking here!
Contact me at: chantelle.flores@maine.edu
Book an appointment with the Writing Center by clicking here!
Hello! I'm currently an undergraduate dual degreeing in English and art history at the University of Maine where I work as an embedded ENG 101 and Writing Center tutor. I'm also a volunteer with the Fogler Library Ambassadors, so you might commonly catch me studying in the library. In the future, I hope to pursue a path toward an interdisciplinary PhD to become a college professor (and hopefully an author, too!).
Besides academic projects and writing, I enjoy creative writing and have dabbled in poetry, short story, flash fiction, and memoir. When I'm not reading and writing, I love spending time with friends and family, traveling, and engaging in music and the visual arts. I'd be more than happy to tutor any creative writing, multimedia-based work, and multimodal projects alongside conventional academic essays!
According to Murphy and Sherwood, tutoring is:
Contextual
Collaborative
Interpersonal
Individualized
In my tutoring philosophy for ENG 395, "‘Gentle Activism’ in the Writing Center: Identity as Part of Collaborative Conversation," I especially emphasize the importance of approaching each session and client with provisionalism.
Provisionalism: where "the tutor acts 'as an audience member,' and [their] 'phrasing suggests that [their] advice ‘may be the case,’ displaying [their] uncertainty with specific subject matter" (Doucette).
As a tutor, provisionalism to me is an embracing of the learning process between both tutor and tutee and the asking of open-ended questions. Often, this means being honest and admitting that you don't have all the answers.
Below is a button to view my entire tutoring philosophy document, or you can skim the file below!