Writing Centers at the Center of Change

ISBN-13: 9781138353909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 220 str.

Joe Essid; Brian McTague

Opis

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.

Spis treści

I: New or Reimagined Spaces Chapter One: Sharing Space and Finding Common Ground: A Practical Guide to Creating Effective Writing Center/Library Partnerships Chapter Two: The Writing Center Speaks Up: On Dissonance, Collaboration, and Harmonization With the Learning Commons Chorus Chapter Three: Online Tutoring: From Writing Center to Virtual Education Hub II: New Missions Chapter Four: The Writing Center in The Writing Program – Peer Tutoring Across Disciplines And Languages Chapter Five: At the Centre of Changing Contexts: A Writing for Life Centre Chapter Six: Black in the Writing Center: Race, Representation and the Post-Racial Lie Chapter Seven: Making Good on the Promise: A Community College in Virginia Collaborates with a Technical Secondary School in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Grow Student Success III: Contested Missions, Contested Spaces Chapter Eight: I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet Chapter Nine: When The Story Of The University Changes – What Happens To The Mission Of The Writing Center? Chapter Ten: From Writing Center to Writing Program? Transdisciplinarity as a Means to Institutional Credibility and Support Chapter Eleven: Negotiating the Complexities of Being A Part of and Apart From