Building a Workplace Writing Center: A Sustainable Solution and Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781032081021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 152 str.

Jessica Weber Metzenroth

Opis

This practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment. This guide is invaluable for professionals across industries and academia considering how to establish an embedded, sustainable, and cost-effective workplace writing center.

Spis treści

Part 1: Welcome to the Writing Center 1. Throwing Open the Doors 2. A Look Back at Writing Center History and a Look Ahead to New Frontiers Part 2: Building the Workplace Writing Center 3. Pitching and Ensuring a Successful Model 4. Mapping the Workplace 5. Determining Services 6. Branding and Marketing Part 3: Measuring and Communicating Progress 7. Needs Assessment 8. Data Logs 9. Surveys 10. Pre-Test/Post-Test Quasi-Experiment Part 4: Workplace Writing Center Professional Development 11. Identity Shifts from an Academic Role 12. Education, Experience, and Professional Development 13. Giving Back Local, Going Global 14. Conclusion

O autorze

Jessica Weber Metzenroth has helped establish workplace writing centers in both the US and Southeast Asia. She founded and directs the Writing Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and has had her work and writings featured by Harvard Business Review, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, and the edited collection How Stories Teach Us: Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship.