Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers
Published on 15. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-64642-435-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This book adds a new layer and a new lens to the large body of scholarship focused on establishing the values, mission, and work of the writing center. By exploring it through the lens of sensemaking we can gain a better understanding of the writing center, establish better writing center policy and administration, and better serve our stakeholders while maintaining our own unique space in writing studies."-Bernice Olivas, Salt Lake City Community College
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 to 99 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64642-435-1 (9781646424351)
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Person
Rita Malenczyk is professor of English and director of the Writing Program and Writing Center at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is editor of A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, now in its second edition; coeditor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity; and a past president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.