Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2024
342 pages
978-1-040-28192-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
These writings offer a new generation of writing center readers' provocative ideas and research-based praxis on the topics covered in the book's four parts: Writing Center History, Critical Perspectives on Current Practices, Writing Center Research, and Writing Centers in New Spaces. Its provocative chapters discuss issues including student agency, collaboration, social justice and marginalized populations, community engagement, and online writing instruction.
Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies provides an up-to-date introduction to new students and a useful reference for long-time practitioners. It is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in composition and education, as well as writing center staff and directors.
These writings offer a new generation of writing center readers' provocative ideas and research-based praxis on the topics covered in the book's four parts: Writing Center History, Critical Perspectives on Current Practices, Writing Center Research, and Writing Centers in New Spaces. Its provocative chapters discuss issues including student agency, collaboration, social justice and marginalized populations, community engagement, and online writing instruction.
Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies provides an up-to-date introduction to new students and a useful reference for long-time practitioners. 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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-040-28192-5 (9781040281925)
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Neal Lerner | Paula Gillespie
Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies
Book
10/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€252.40
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Neal Lerner | Paula Gillespie
Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies
Book
10/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€86.70
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Neal Lerner is professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on writing, literacy, teaching/tutoring writing, and creative nonfiction.
Paula Gillespie is associate professor emerita of English at Florida International University, where she directed the Center for Excellence in Writing.
Paula Gillespie is associate professor emerita of English at Florida International University, where she directed the Center for Excellence in Writing.
Content
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
