Coding the Whiteboard Space: How a Pandemic Prompted a Project in Online Writing Center Research
Abstract
Many Writing Center scholars have begun advocating for replicable, aggregable, and data-supported (RAD) research to inform peer tutoring practices in university writing centers. While recent research on in-person sessions is prevalent, there has not been much conducted in an online environment. The 2020-2021 Covid 19 pandemic became the impetus for just such a study, as the author explored her options for a senior project. The resultant study described here focused on creating a coding method for tutor feedback using the whiteboard space in WCOnline and aims to provide a starting point for research on online synchronous sessions and considerations for transitioning back into in-person tutoring.
Author Biography
Abigail Kremer is currently an MA student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the time of this research, she was an undergraduate student at UIC studying professional writing.
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