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The following feature article appears in the Spring\/Summer 2019 issue of Third + Broadway magazine<\/a>, scheduled for delivery in June.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could \u2026 be passed from one skilled performer on to others, who might thereby achieve successes in their practical life that would otherwise have eluded them.\u201d<\/p>\u2014 Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Most of us can remember learning grammar \u2014 parsing sentences\nand practicing subject-verb agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us remember spelling tests and saying aloud with our\nschoolmates, \u201c\u2018i\u2019 before \u2018e\u2019 except after \u2018c \u2026 .\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do you remember learning to write? Do you remember who\ntaught you to take those jumbled ideas in your head and transfer them to paper\nin a pathway of paragraphs and pages? It seems most of us probably don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could it be because we\u2019ve always known how? From the moment\nwe began making up stories as toddlers, or telling our parents what we did that\nday, we\u2019ve been telling stories, organizing our thoughts in a way that\ncommunicates what it is we want to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve always been writers. It\u2019s building our toolkit \u2014 the\nresearch, the knowledge of literature, the tricks and turns of phrases \u2014 that\ngives us the confidence to call ourselves that. Writing is a skill that we all\nhave, but it\u2019s a skill that can be developed with intentional training and\nlearning from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what Aristotle was referring to when he called\nrhetoric \u2014 his word for communication \u2014 a teachable skill that adds tangible\nvalue to our lives. And perhaps that\u2019s what alumni mean when they say, over and\nover, that they learned to write at Transylvania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the foundations to a traditional liberal arts\neducation,\u201d says Scott Whiddon, professor of writing, rhetoric, and\ncommunication. \u201cIt\u2019s the DNA of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whiddon talks about writing like a parent talks about their\nchildren. It involves discipline and love and frustration and breakthrough and\nfear, but it\u2019s always evolving \u2014 and never boring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Scott
Scott Whiddon is director of Transylvania\u2019s Writing Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s the director of Transylvania\u2019s Writing Center, a campus\nhub of creativity and mentorship located in the library\u2019s Academic Center for\nExcellence. His team of staffers spend time every week \u2014 approximately 800\nhours a year \u2014 working with their fellow students, in one-on-one and group\nsessions helping them build their own toolkits. They also hold workshops in\nclasses around campus, helping faculty carry out their own writing assignments.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not about fixing papers or correcting typos. It\u2019s about\nintentional conversation on the goals of an assignment, on supporting a thesis,\non breaking rules and not being afraid to let your personality shine in your\npiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis space is sort of a cross between a recording studio\nand a personal trainer,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait \u2014 hear him out. In addition to his teaching, Whiddon\nhas been a working musician since he was 16 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a recording studio, you have to actively listen,\ncollaborate, figure out the end product and allow yourself the benefit of\nsurprise. You have to have a really good sense of genre and know the shape of\nthings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut you go to a personal trainer with a specific set of\ngoals in mind, and you go regularly and keep building on that bar set, and\nthrough that process you end up with an exceptional product.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That strategy has grown the Writing Center into the force\nthat it is today \u2014 20 staffers, fully trained, working with students from all\nyears, all majors and all skill levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potential staffers are recommended to Whiddon, who puts them\nthrough a semester-long training practicum where they learn to be effective\nteachers and collaborators. From reading scholarly research on good writing\ncenter practice, to shadowing current staffers, to role-playing scenarios, the\nstudents soak up the Writing Center\u2019s values of collaboration, creativity and\ncommunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once they become full staffers, they get requests submitted\nby students looking for writing assistance \u2014 they call them \u201cpatrons\u201d \u2014 and\nmeet one on one to help with anything from brainstorming to citing sources to\nclarity to length. They often find that what the patrons are really seeking is\nconfidence in their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the most common questions patrons have is \u2018Does it\nmake sense?\u2019\u201d says junior staffer Isaac Settle. \u201cNine times out of 10, it does\n\u2014 that\u2019s not the issue. What they usually want is affirmation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staffers consistently talk about the importance of\nmaking the patron feel comfortable in the sessions, that it\u2019s the best way to\nbring out confident and creative writing. It\u2019s hard when students are working\non so many papers, trying to perfectly fulfill the assignment\u2019s requirements,\nto coax them into truthfully expressing themselves, but that emphasis is one of\nthe things that makes Transy\u2019s Writing Center so unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Transy
Writing Center staffer Chetali Jhamnani ’19 (left) says it’s important to establish rapport with students.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always start by welcoming them to the Writing Center, by\nintroducing myself,\u201d says senior staffer Chetali Jhamnani. \u201cIt\u2019s really\nimportant to get a rapport with students, especially if you haven\u2019t worked with\nthem before. A lot of people are scared to talk about their writing, and you\nhave to help them get comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior staffer Jewell Boyd echoes the importance of being at\nease in writing. \u201cIf they\u2019re not comfortable, they\u2019re either not willing to\nmake changes in their writing, or they\u2019ll just take every single thing you say\nand do it immediately,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not what we\u2019re looking for. We\u2019re\nlooking for collaborative effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This method and its success has earned the Writing Center\nnational recognition. In addition to being asked to present at various\nconferences around the country, Transy\u2019s Writing Center has been honored with\nthe 2018 Martinson Award by the Small Liberal Arts College Writing Program\nAdministrators, as well as three Christine Cozzens Research and Initiative\nAwards from the Southeastern Writing Center Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transy\u2019s Writing Center was the brainchild of WRC professor Martha\nGehringer, who, in the late 1980s, observed a need for students to get extra\nhelp with their writing. Nationwide, there was a movement to instill the value\nof writing into all programs and across all curricula, and at the same time\npedagogical research was placing a greater emphasis on collaborative learning\nand writing, showing that students learn particularly well and get quality\nattention from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gehringer was able to get a work-study student \u2014 Lisa Jones\n\u201989, who sat outside her office in a partition \u2014 and the two of them worked\nwith students on their writing. They were the first Writing Center. Listening\nto Gehringer talk about her vision from 30 years ago, the value system is\nstrikingly familiar to how the Writing Center functions today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about rules, it\u2019s not about forms. It\u2019s about\nlearning to think like a writer \u2014 you have to experience it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a\nway that you don\u2019t necessarily learn from teachers. You learn from watching\nothers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Writing Center grew, Gehringer\u2019s office was moved to\nthe basement of what was then Haupt Humanities so that they could have more\nspace for more staffers and patrons. Students started coming in, not just for\nhelp on their academic assignments, but on their personal essays and poems. One\nstudent asked Gehringer for help on how to get a poem published. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI said, \u2018You don\u2019t have to know how to publish it \u2014 go\nwrite it on my door,\u2019\u201d Gehringer says. \u201cSo she wrote her poem on my door and\nsigned it and dated it. I said, \u2018It\u2019s published.\u2019 Next thing I knew, people\nwere flocking to write poems
\non my door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gehringer\u2019s door filled up with poems. Shy students would\nwrite on the edges or even on the inside so you couldn\u2019t read them when it was\nclosed. During a time when writing was really beginning to flourish at Transy,\nthe door stood as a symbol of its great potential, of playfulness and\npermanence and power that remain deeply instilled in the culture of writing\nthat exists here today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I inherited from Martha Gehringer, and the seed\nof what we do here,\u201d Whiddon says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The door sits in the Writing Center as a reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very often you\u2019ll hear a Transy student say that they write\na lot. Depending on the student\u2019s state of mind, that statement could be\nexciting or exhausting, freeing or terrifying. But it\u2019s universally true \u2014\nTransy students write. They may study English, business, anthropology, German,\nphilosophy, physics, but they will write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can be daunting when you don\u2019t know what to expect.\nTransy has set up courses for first-year students \u2014 First-Year Seminar and\nFirst-Year Research Seminar \u2014 that help give them an idea of the kind of\nwriting that will be expected of them as students here. Most students taking\nthose courses will end up in the Writing Center at some point or another \u2014\nstaffers often say that those are their favorite patrons to work with \u2014 and\nthat relationship is a great way to set the tone for the university\u2019s culture\nof writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI consider myself someone who loved writing before coming\nto college,\u201d Jhamnani says. \u201cI don\u2019t think I was as confident coming in,\nthough. But I\u2019ve definitely gotten better at it. FYS and FYRS prepare you to be\na college academic writer. And I\u2019ve taken a lot of writing classes and the\nWriting Center practicum, and all of that combined has really helped me develop\nas a writer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An international student who grew up in Liberia, Jhamnani is\na biology major who was just accepted into graduate school for medical sciences\nat the University of Kentucky. She plans to go to medical school or possibly to\ncontinue studying in the sciences. And she\u2019s a writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Settle is a double major in history and political science\nwho is preparing to go to law school. And he\u2019s a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyd is a WRC major whose dream is to work in publishing. Of\ncourse she\u2019s a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the Writing Center\u2019s appointment log in any given\nsemester, and you\u2019ll find every major represented. There may be no better\ntestament to the way writing has become intertwined throughout disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWriting is embedded at Transy,\u201d Settle says. \u201cYou\u2019re going\nto get better, even if you don\u2019t really care to get better. That\u2019s a beneficial\ntool that Transy has. Think about all the applications and resumes you\u2019ll be\ndoing. Think about writing emails \u2014 do you know how many emails I get that\ndon\u2019t make any sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe writing I do now, I assume, will be different from the\nwriting I do in graduate school. But I\u2019ve been exposed to a lot of different\ntypes of writing. After working in the Writing Center, I wouldn\u2019t be as scared\nto tackle a paper in another discipline. It\u2019s professional development for my\nown writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing his staffers excel in their lives and careers is just\nas rewarding to Whiddon as seeing Writing Center patrons blossom in their own\nacademics. He gets emails and cards from them, marveling at how they\u2019ve become\nprofessors, surgeons, lawyers, parents. He sees how being a part of the writing\nculture at Transylvania has instilled in them warmth and curiosity and active\nlistening. He and some of the current staffers recently unveiled a new research\nproject where they will be surveying Writing Center alumni and getting a sense\nof how working in the Writing Center influenced their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have the best colleagues imaginable \u2014 they just happen to\nbe undergraduates,\u201d he says. \u201cThe maturity they have \u2014 they\u2019re the face of\nwriting at this college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe students who are staffers can get into any school in\nthe world because they can write,\u201d Gehringer adds. \u201cThey can take any question\nand see how to get it to the page in ways that you couldn\u2019t teach them in the\nclassroom. They\u2019re patient. They\u2019ll give you time. They\u2019re learning by\nteaching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those values aren\u2019t much different from what makes any\nliberally educated student successful. Look at the quality of writing at a\nliberal arts institution, and you\u2019ll probably have a pretty good idea of the\nquality of the education. The two always inform each other. At Transy, the\nresults speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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