Kairotic Moments in the Writing Center

Abstract

Those of us who work in writing centers mark our time. We schedule in 30minute, 40-minute, 45-minute, and hour increments, and we confer, collaborate, and work in those temporal spaces. That type of time represents the linear quality of how long a session runs, when a writing center pedagogy class begins and ends, the temporal arc of a semester–what the ancient Greeks called chronos