Writing Centers At The Center Of Change
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Writing Centers At The Center Of Change
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Author : Joe Essid
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-09
Writing Centers At The Center Of Change written by Joe Essid and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Writing Centers at the Center of Change looks at how eleven centers, internationally, adapted to change at their institutions, during a decade when their very success has become a valued commodity in a larger struggle for resources on many campuses. Bringing together both US and international perspectives, this volume offers solutions for adapting to change in the world of writing centers, ranging from the logistical to the pedagogical, and even to the existential. Each author discusses the origins, appropriate responses, and partners to seek when change comes from within a school or outside it. Chapters document new programs being formed under changing circumstances, and suggest ways to navigate professional or pedagogical changes that may undermine the hard work of more than four decades of writing-center professionals. The book’s audience includes writing center and learning-commons administrators, university librarians, deans, department chairs affiliated with writing centers. It will also be useful for graduate students in composition, rhetoric, and academic writing.
Writing Centers And The New Racism
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Author : Laura Greenfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-16
Writing Centers And The New Racism written by Laura Greenfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-16 with Education categories.
"Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of questions related to institutionalized racism in American higher education, especially in college and university writing centers"-- Provided by publisher.
Multilingual Writers And Writing Centers
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Author : Ben Rafoth
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2015-01-15
Multilingual Writers And Writing Centers written by Ben Rafoth and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Multilingual writers—often graduate students with more content knowledge and broader cultural experience than a monolingual tuto—unbalance the typical tutor/client relationship and pose a unique challenge for the writing center. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers explores how directors and tutors can better prepare for the growing number of one-to-one conferences with these multilingual writers they will increasingly encounter in the future. This much-needed addition of second language acquisition (SLA) research and teaching to the literature of writing center pedagogy draws from SLA literature; a body of interviews Rafoth conducted with writing center directors, students, and tutors, and his own decades of experience. Well-grounded in daily writing center practice, the author addresses which concepts and practices directors can borrow from the field of SLA to help tutors respond to the needs of multilingual writers, what directors need to know about these concepts and practices, and how tutoring might change in response to changes in student populations. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers is a call to invigorate the preparation of tutors and directors for the negotiation of the complexities of multilingual and multicultural communication.
Radical Writing Center Praxis
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Author : Laura Greenfield
language : en
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Radical Writing Center Praxis written by Laura Greenfield and has been published by Utah State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Radical Writing Center Praxis Laura Greenfield calls for a paradigm change in writing centers, imagining a field whose very reason for being is to facilitate justice and peace. The book calls on readers to more critically examine power and agency in writing centers and to imagine new possibilities for the field’s theories and practices. Large, intersecting systems of oppression manifest in the everyday practices of institutions, classrooms, and writing centers. Local practices in turn influence the surrounding world. Radical Writing Center Praxis therefore challenges the writing center field to resist assumptions of political neutrality and instead to redefine itself in terms of more explicit ethical commitments. In this paradigm it is clear that to engage in anti-oppression work is not merely a special interest but rather a vital interest to all. Introducing the concepts and vocabulary of radical politics, Radical Writing Center Praxis examines the tensions between the field’s professed beliefs and everyday practices and offers a process by which the writing center discipline as a whole might rebuild itself anew. It will be invaluable to writing center directors, tutors, scholars, and students as well as to administrators and compositionists.
Student Writing Tutors In Their Own Words
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Author : Max Orsini
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-06-24
Student Writing Tutors In Their Own Words written by Max Orsini and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process. Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering support in war-torn countries, and students in international centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable resource for student writing tutors and anyone involved with them, including composition instructors and scholars, writing center professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with academic support programs.
Everyday Writing Center
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Author : Anne Ellen Geller
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Everyday Writing Center written by Anne Ellen Geller and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Education categories.
The Everyday Writing Center challenges some of the most comfortable traditions in its field, and it does so with a commitment and persuasiveness that one seldom sees in scholarly discussion. The book, at its core, is an argument for a new writing center consciousness--one that makes the most of the writing center's unique, and uniquely fluid, identity. Writing center specialists live with a liminality that has been acknowledged but not fully explored in the literature. Their disciplinary identity is with the English department, but their mission is cross-disciplinary; their research is pedagogical, but they often report to central administration. Their education is in humanities, but their administrative role demands constant number-crunching. This fluid identity explains why Trickster--an icon of spontaneity, shape-shifting, and the creative potential of chaos--has come to be a favorite cultural figure for the authors of this book. Adapting Lewis Hyde and others, these authors use Trickster to develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger's concept of "community of practice" into an ethos for a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. Through Trickster, they question not only accepted approaches to writing center pedagogy, but conventional approaches to race, time, leadership, and collaboration as well. They encourage their field to exploit the creative potential in ordinary events that are normally seen as disruptive or defeating, and they challenge traditions in the field that tend to isolate a writing center director from the department and campus. Yet all is not random, for the authors anchor this high-risk/high-yield approach in their commitment to a version of Wenger's community of practice. Conceiving of themselves, their colleagues, student writers, and student tutors as co-learners engaged together in a dynamic life of learning, the authors find a way to ground the excess and randomness of the everyday, while advancing an ethic of mutual respect and self-challenge. Committed to testing a region beyond the edge of convention, the authors of The Everyday Writing Center constantly push themselves and their field toward deeper, more significant research, and more reflective, dynamic teaching.
Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter
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Author : Ellen Schendel
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter written by Ellen Schendel and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing centers are used to certain kinds of assessment, both quantitative and qualitative, but are often unprepared to address larger institutional or societal issues. In Building Writing Center Assessments that Matter, Schendel and Macauley start from the kinds of assessment strengths already in place in writing centers, and they build a framework that can help writing centers satisfy local needs and put them in useful dialogue with the larger needs of their institutions, while staying rooted in writing assessment theory. The authors begin from the position that tutoring writers is already an assessment activity, and that good assessment practice (rooted in the work of Adler-Kassner, O'Neill, Moore, and Huot) already reflects the values of writing center theory and practice. They offer examples of assessments developed in local contexts, and of how assessment data built within those contexts can powerfully inform decisions and shape the futures of local writing centers. With additional contributions by Neal Lerner, Brian Huot and Nicole Caswell, and with a strong commitment to honoring on-site local needs, the volume does not advocate a one-size-fits-all answer. But, like the modeling often used in a writing consultation, examples here illustrate how important assessment principles have been applied in a range of local contexts. Ultimately, Building Writing Assessments that Matter describes a theory stance toward assessment for writing centers that honors the uniqueness of the writing center context, and examples of assessment in action that are concrete, manageable, portable, and adaptable.
Theories And Methods Of Writing Center Studies
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Author : Jo Mackiewicz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Theories And Methods Of Writing Center Studies written by Jo Mackiewicz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Education categories.
This collection helps students and researchers understand the foundations of writing center studies in order to make sound decisions about the types of methods and theoretical lenses that will help them formulate and answer their research questions. In the collection, accomplished writing center researchers discuss the theories and methods that have enabled their work, providing readers with a useful and accessible guide to developing research projects that interest them and make a positive contribution. It introduces an array of theories, including genre theory, second-language acquisition theory, transfer theory, and disability theory, and guides novice and experienced researchers through the finer points of methods such as ethnography, corpus analysis, and mixed-methods research. Ideal for courses on writing center studies and pedagogy, it is essential reading for researchers and administrators in writing centers and writing across the curriculum or writing in the disciplines programs.
Sensemaking For Writing Programs And Writing Centers
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Author : Rita Malenczyk
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2023-06-15
Sensemaking For Writing Programs And Writing Centers written by Rita Malenczyk and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this collection writing program and writing center administrators from a range of academic institutions come together to explore their work through the lens of sensemaking. Sensemaking is an organizational theory concept that enables institutions, supervisors, teachers, tutors, and others to better understand the work they do by using narrative, metaphor, and other theoretical lenses. The book is divided into two sections: Sensemaking with Tutors and Teachers, and Sensemaking and Institutional Structures. Chapter authors employ several theoretical approaches to sensemaking, ranging from individual experience to institutional history to document design, providing readers with ideas for how to administer and teach within their programs more effectively; how to advocate for their programs within larger university contexts; and how to positively influence the lives and careers of those they work with. Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers theorizes daily experiences from working lives and suggests problem-solving strategies. Writing program administrators, writing department chairs, and writing center directors, tutors, and staff will find value in its pages.
Impact Of Emergent Technologies On Writing Centers And Pedagogy
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Author : Wang, Tingjia
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2025-05-08
Impact Of Emergent Technologies On Writing Centers And Pedagogy written by Wang, Tingjia and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-08 with Education categories.
Emergent technologies reshape the landscape of writing centers and pedagogical practices in higher education. From AI-driven writing tools to collaborative platforms and digital feedback systems, these innovations transform how writing support is delivered, accessed, and understood. Writing centers are no longer confined to physical spaces, instead they evolve into hybrid or fully online environments that accommodate diverse learner needs and preferences. Pedagogically, instructors and tutors rethink traditional approaches, integrating digital literacy, multimodal composition, and ethical engagement with technology into their curricula. As a result, emergent technologies enhance accessibility and efficiency while challenging educators to critically examine the role of technology in writing instruction and the student learning experience. Impact of Emergent Technologies on Writing Centers and Pedagogy explores the impact of emergent technologies on writing centers and writing pedagogy in higher education worldwide. It examines the themes, concerns, and challenges emerging from different writing centers and their culturally and linguistically diverse responses towards the latest transformations in writing pedagogy. This book covers topics such as digital literacy, policymaking, and writing programs, and is a useful resource for educators, computer engineers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.