Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lerner, Neal; Gillespie, Paula

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040285619
• Artikelnr.: 72279843

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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