The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directorspresents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris sWriting Centers in Context(1993), the authors adopt a case study approach to examine the labor these directors performed and the varied motivations for their labor, as well as the labor they ignored, deferred, or sidelined temporarily, whether or not they wanted to.
The study shows directors engaged in various...
The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directorspresents a...
LENSES ON COMPOSITION STUDIES - Series Editors: Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook. STRATEGIES FOR WRITING CENTER RESEARCH is a guide to empirical research on writing center work. Though there are many other places where formal writing instruction, conversations about writing, conversations about teaching writing, writing, and revision happen, these activities are all always occurring in writing centers. All of the political, theoretical, social, spatial, technological, and practical debates about how a someone becomes a better writer play out hour after hour in the writing center; thus,...
LENSES ON COMPOSITION STUDIES - Series Editors: Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook. STRATEGIES FOR WRITING CENTER RESEARCH is a guide to empirical...
