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Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of related questions: How does institutionalized racism in American education shape the culture of literacy and language education in the writing center? How does racism operate in the discourses of writing center scholarship/lore, and how may writing centers be unwittingly complicit in racist practices? How can they meaningfully operationalize anti-racist work? How do they persevere through the difficulty and messiness of negotiating race and racism in their daily practice? The conscientious, nuanced attention to race in this volume is meant to model what it means to be bold in engagement with these hard questions and to spur the kind of sustained, productive, multi-vocal, and challenging dialogue that, with a few significant exceptions, has been absent from the field.

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies.The Activist WPAis an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act.Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurgent traditions of progressive organizers, Linda Adler-Kassner calls upon composition teachers and administrators to develop strategic programs of collective action that do justice to composition's best principles. Adler-Kassner argues that the \"story\" of college composition can be changed only when writing scholars bring the wonders down, to articulate a theory framework that is pragmatic and intelligible to those outside the field--and then create messages that reference that framework. InThe Activist WPA,she makes a case for developing a more integrated vision of outreach, English education, and writing program administration.

The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center professionals may experience. This blend of theory with actual practice provides a multi-dimensional view of writing center work. In the end, this book serves not only as a resource but also as a guide to future directions for the writing center, which will continue to evolve in response to a myriad of new challenges that will lie ahead. Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Writing Centers and Institutional Change. Section I: What Writing Center History Can Tell Us About Writing Center Practice. N. Lerner, Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors. C. Glover, Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea. S. Ferruci, S. DeRosa, Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos. P. Gillespie, B. Hughes, N. Lerner, A.E. Geller, The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds, Development, Vision. R. Wallace, S.L. Wallace, Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development. Section II: Managing the Writing Center. P.B. Childers, Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center. K. Lowe, \"If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail\": Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors. M. Weaver, A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center. M. Mattison, Managing the Center: The Director as Coach. B. Peters, Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers. L. Fitzgerald, D. Stephenson, Directors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus. Section III: Responding to Institutional Settings/Demands. A.W. Martin, The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting. C. Gardner, T. Rousculp, Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center. B.L. Stay, Writing Centers in the Small College. H. Snively, T. Freeman, C. Prentice, Writing Centers for Graduate Students. D. Paoli, Tutoring in a Remedial/Developmental Learning Context. K. Dvorak, B. Rafoth, Examining Writing Center Director-Assistant Director Relationships. A.C. DeCiccio, There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing. Section IV: Writing Centers in the Administration. J. Simpson, Managing Encounters With Central Administration. B.W. Speck, Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success. J. Mullin, P. Carino, J. Nelson, K. Evertz, Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location. J. Hawthorne, Approaching Assessment as if It Matters. Part II: Writing Centers and Praxis. Section I: Ethics in the Writing Center. R.M. Howard, T.H. Carrick, Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship. M.A. Pemberton, Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center. C. Murphy, On Not \"Bowling Alone\" in the Writing Center, or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education. D. Bringhurst, Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach. Section II: Tutor Training in the Writing Center. S. Strang, Staffing a Writing Center With Professional Tutors. M. Harris, Using Tutorial Principles to Train Tutors: Practicing Our Praxis. C.P. Haviland, M. Trianosky, Tutors Speak: What Do We Want From Our Writing Center Directors? P. Gillespie, H. Kail, Crossing Thresholds: Starting a Peer Tutoring Program. B. Devet, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of Certifying a Tutoring Program Through CRLA. Section III: Writing Centers and Electronic Instruction. D.M. Sheridan, Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers. L.E. Bell, Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online. B. Click, S. Magruder, Implementing Electronic Portfolios as Part of the Writing Center: Connections, Benefits, Cautions, and Strategies. L. Hawkes, When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students With Disabilities. Section IV: Writing Center Case Studies. P.B. Childers, Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers. K.T. Abels, The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: A Site and Story Under Construction. M.A. Pemberton, Working With Faculty Consultants in the Writing Center: Three Guidelines and a Case History. E. Schreiber, Funding a Writing Center Through a University Line.

\"A wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators transitioning into and out of leadership positions. Contributors recount insightful anecdotes and provide a scholarly context in which WPAs can share their experiences\"--Provided by publisher.

This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW becomes even more a negotiation of the personal because this teacher who is listener and mentor is also a model for some students of the writer and even the person they would like to become - and still the Authority who gives the grades.

\"The disciplinary triad of open-access, multimodality, and writing center studies presents a timely, critical lens for discussing academic publishing in a moment of crucibilic change, where rapid technological advancements force scholars and institutions to question what is produced and \"counts\" as academic writing. Using historiographic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis, Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies sees writing center scholarship as a microcosm of many of the larger issues at play in the contemporary academic publishing landscape. This case study approach reveals the complex, imbricated ways that questions about publishing manifest both within the content of journals, and as related to academics' perceptions as signifiers of disciplinary visibility, identity, and transformation. More than just reaffirming the conventional wisdom about these changes in publishing--that these shifts are happening and we do not always know how to pinpoint the--Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies suggests that scholars in all fields, compositionists, and writing center practitioners be conscious of the ways they are complicit in maintaining barriers to accessibility and innovation.\"-- Publisher's description.

The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education.Working with Faculty Writerstakes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocating its value for tenure-track professors, adjuncts, senior scholars, and graduate students. The authors in this volume imagine productive campus writing support for faculty and future faculty that allows for new insights about their own disciplinary writing and writing processes, as well as the development of fresh ideas about student writing. Contributors from a variety of institution types and perspectives consider who faculty writers are and who they may be in the future, reveal the range of locations and models of support for faculty writers, explore the ways these might be delivered and assessed, and consider the theoretical, philosophical, political, and pedagogical approaches to faculty writing support, as well as its relationship to student writing support.With the pressure on faculty to be productive researchers and writers greater than ever, this is a must-read volume for administrators, faculty, and others involved in developing and assessing models of faculty writing support.