By Andrew Goldberg — Peer Tutor
July 19, 2023

As a student and a tutor, the Writing Center Blog has been crucial in not only getting help, but also helping other students. This blog allows us to show you guys what we do here at the Writing Center, in hopes of making you feel comfortable in seeking our help. As tutors, our job has, and always will be to help as many students as possible. Through embedded tutors, workshops, our one on one sessions, and our facilities like the Attic, we have managed to help an inconceivable amount of you guys, and we could not be more proud.

Having said that, one of our lesser known methods is our Blog. With 26,000 students at Daytona State College, it is nearly impossible to help all of you guys. This blog has allowed us to expand our outreach to as many of you as possible and to let you guys know we are here to help. But along with that, it has also shown you guys what we do here at the Writing Center, and gives you guys an example of the kind of writing we enjoy. We understand that asking for help is one of the hardest things anyone can do, and showing your personal writing to someone you may have never met before can be one of the most vulnerable things you can do.

When I was a student here, it took me an embarrassingly long time to reach out for help from the Writing Center. I entered college lacking the writing skills necessary, leading me to not do as well as I wanted my first semester. It was not until I reached out to help from the Writing Center my second semester that my writing drastically improved. I not only got good at it, but I found a way to enjoy it, and now I am a tutor wanting to help other students do the same. I understand how difficult it is to show a stranger your writing because I was in that same situation. I benefited from having an embedded tutor, someone who I was able to get to know and be comfortable showing my work to. Sadly, that is not possible for everyone, and this blog allows us to show every student who wishes to read it who we are. 

We want you guys to understand that we are human too, and we are all in this together. So whether it's through reading a post about why trains are great, or a spooky short story, we want you guys to know who we are. We all have different personalities; we aren't just some robots. Even though gaining a personal connection through an embedded tutor may be a better way for you guys to get comfortable asking us for help, we sadly cannot have an embedded tutor in every class.

So, grab some popcorn, read through some of our blogs and get to know us. And when you are writing your next paper and you are feeling stuck, or need help writing a thesis, or even just a second set of eyes, we will be here ready to help.