Hospitality in the Writing Center: A Conceptual Framework for Tutors

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores hospitality’s utility as a conceptual framework to assist writing tutors. The study, described in the article, investigated tutors’ perceptions concerning how Haswell & Haswell’s elaboration of hospitality—as a disposition—might bring about more positive, generative, and encouraging outcomes in writing center work. The data collected in the form of audio-recorded tutorials, post-tutorial interviews, and a focus group suggests that hospitality offers an open but promising schema to help tutors consider what responsible and ethical use of power and authority might look like for their appointments—particularly when working outside their disciplines and with multilingual students.