Writing Center as Service-Learning

An argument in class last week that discredited the Writing Center as a site of service learning was that there is never a time when consultant and consultee are both experts on the writing they are doing. The consultee is always there for help that the consultant gives.

I disagree. Many times undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty come to the Writing Center as experts of their own fields and the questioning, brainstorming, writing, and revising that is formed as a result of these consultations is more collaborative in nature that the typical tutor-over-tutee relationship.