Skits and the Writing Center

I was reading the Writing Lab newsletter, issue 21.1 and I came across the section “Using skits to get the word out.” There are five (5) skits that Todd McCann wrote, and not only are they funny but they bring up and mention the “myths” about the Writing Center. They talk about the no’s that as writing assistants we are told about and instructed not to use.  Just reading the skits are entertaining, I can’t imagine some of the people preforming them or being preformed.

I think that these would be a really interesting tool to use in classrooms where we have an audience and some time that we could talk about the writing center without the boring talk of the writing center. I think it would be a good way to break up the monotony of “this is what we do in the writing center…yada yada yada….” They are short and really easy (I feel) to implement into our talks of the WC.