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Asynchronous Support

Bain

Routledge eBooks23 Sep 2026

NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20261105/AB896714DOI10.1201/9781042014705-7

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The value of the writing center is in its ability to meet students where they are at both in literal and figurative terms. Writing centers offer students the ability to engage in various modes of supportive collaboration with tutors. These varied modalities allow the writing center the ability to best meet students’ personal and academic needs. The common depiction of writing center support is that of tutor and student sitting in close proximity and discussing, grappling with the writing process through in-person engagements. However, as technology advances and the culture of social connection evolves within digital spaces, face-to-face collaboration ceases to be the sole method of engagement afforded to students for writing support. In examining the value of asynchronous support within the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this chapter analyzes the mirroring of AI tools to that of human asynchronous writing support. This chapter highlights the challenges of AI optimization and ways that the writing center can address those challenges and provide key contexts for writing center sustainability.

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