Writing Center Work

The first half of my ongoing research project about what are the unique needs of students coming from alternative educational backgrounds and how peer tutoring and the writing center can help them succeed in higher academia. My research so far has focused primarily on Protestant Christian educational choices, their complicated history over the past half century, and the current knowledge deficit about their longterm outcomes. 

This research will continue by looking at how partisan politics have impacted reading abilities in both public and alternative school systems. My goal is to apply current Writing Center studies concerning how student's backgrounds impact their abilities to write - and conduct research - and how this can be applied to breaking down biases in a polarized political climate to work with students from alternative education systems, in particular at the high school level.