Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367206406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Neal Lerner; Paula Gillespie

Opis

This volume collects essential writings in the field of writing center studies as it has blossomed and developed since the 1995 publication of Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. It is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in composition and education, as well as writing center staff and directors.

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Part 1: Writing Center History  1. Talking in the Middle: Why Writers Need Writing Tutors  2. "Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions  3. Reconsiderations: After "The Idea of a Writing Center"  Part 2: Critical Perspectives on Current Practices  4. Centering Difference: Student Agency and the Limits of "Comfortable" Collaboration  5. Breathing Lessons or Collaboration Is . . .  6. Avoiding Appropriation  7. Queering the Writing Center  8. Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race  9. Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces  10. Unmaking Gringo-Centers  Part 3: Writing Center Research  11. Tick-Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center  12. What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project  13. Theory In/To Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center  14. Decisions . . . Decisions: Who Chooses to Use the Writing Center?  Part 4: Writing Centers in New Spaces  15. Writing Fellows as WAC Change Agents: Changing What? Changing Whom? Changing How?  16. When the Community Writes: Re-envisioning the SLCC DiverseCity Writing Series  17. "We’re All in This Thing Together": An Equitable and Flexible Approach to Language Diversity in the Stellenbosch University Writing Lab  18. Situation Definition and the Online Synchronous Writing Conference