The writing center director's resource book

The writing center director's resource book / edited by Christina Murphy, Byron L. Stay.

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...

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Corporate Authors: Routledge (Firm), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Other Authors: Murphy, Christina, 1947-, Stay, Byron L., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY. : Routledge, 2010
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher) > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Writing centers > Administration > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Center for Writing.
Handbooks and manuals.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. I: Writing centers and institutional change. 1: What writing center history can tell us about writing center practice. Time warp: historical representations of writing center directors / N. Lerner
  • Kairos and the writing center: modern perspectives on an ancient idea / C. Glover
  • Writing a sustainable history: mapping writing center ethos / S. Ferruci, S. DeRosa
  • The Writing Center Summer Institute: backgrounds, development, vision / P. Gillespie, B. Hughes, N. Lerner, A.E. Geller
  • Growing our own: writing centers as historically fertile fields for professional development / R. Wallace, S.L. Wallace
  • 2: Managing the writing center. Designing a strategic plan for a writing center / P.B. Childers
  • "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail": strategic planning and management for writing center directors / K. Lowe
  • A call for racial diversity in the writing center / M. Weaver
  • Managing the center: the director as coach / M. Mattison
  • Documentation strategies and the institutional socialization of writing centers / B. Peters
  • Directors at the center: relationships across campus / L. Fitzgerald, D. Stephenson
  • 3: Responding to institutional settings/demands. The center has two faces: developing a writing center in a multicampus university setting / A.W. Martin
  • Open doors: the community college writing center / C. Gardner, T. Rousculp
  • Writing centers in the small college / B.L. Stay
  • Writing centers for graduate students / H. Snively, T. Freeman, C. Prentice
  • Tutoring in a remedial/developmental learning context / D. Paoli
  • Examining writing center director-assistant director relationships / K. Dvorak, B. Rafoth
  • There's something happening here: the writing center and core writing / A.C. DeCiccio
  • 4: Writing centers in the administration. Managing encounters with central administration / J. Simpson
  • Managing up: philosophical and financial perspectives for administrative success / B.W. Speck
  • Administrative (chaos) theory: the politics and practices of writing center location / J. Mullin, P. Carino, J. Nelson, K. Evertz
  • Approaching assessment as if it matters / J. Hawthorne
  • pt. II: Writing centers and praxis. 1: Ethics in the writing center. Activist strategies for textual multiplicity: writing center leadership on plagiarism and authorship / R.M. Howard, T.H. Carrick
  • Critique or conformity?: ethics and advocacy in the writing center / M.A. Pemberton
  • On not "bowling alone" in the writing center, or why peer tutoring is an essential community for writers and for higher education / C. Murphy
  • Identifying our ethical responsibility: a criterion-based approach / D. Bringhurst
  • 2: Tutor training in the writing center. Staffing a writing center with professional tutors / S. Strang
  • Using tutorial principles to train tutors: practicing our practice / M. Harris
  • Tutors speak: what do we want from our writing center directors? / C.P. Haviland, M. Trianosky
  • Crossing thresholds: starting a peer tutoring program / P. Gillespie, H. Kail
  • The good, the bad, the ugly of certifying a tutoring program through CRLA / B. Devet
  • 3: Writing centers and electronic instruction. Words, images, sounds: writing centers as multiliteracy centers / D.M. Sheridan
  • Preserving the rhetorical nature of tutoring when going online / L.E. Bell
  • Implementing electronic portfolios as part of the writing center: connections, benefits, cautions, and strategies / B. Click, S. Magruder
  • When compassion isn't enough: providing fair and equivalent access to writing help for students with disabilities / L. Hawkes
  • 4: Writing center case studies. Bottom up or top down: a case study of two secondary school writing centers / P.B. Childers
  • The writing center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: a site and story under construction / K.T. Abels
  • Working with faculty consultants in the writing center: three guidelines and a case history / M.A. Pemberton
  • Funding a writing center through a university line / E. Schreiber.

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