In Peter Carino’s “Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring,” Carino discusses how power and authority affects the relationship between student and tutor in a writing center, the history of writing centers being a comfortable space for students, but also addressing why tutors should acknowledge that there is a hierarchical relationship between tutors and students. She also provides examples of non directive tutoring, to illustrate that while it can help tutors to mitigate the relationship they establish with their students, it also illustrates that writing centers should “not depend on blind commitment to nondirective tutoring tutoring methods (Carino 109).” She encourages tutors to try to identify moments in a session where exhibiting authority
