The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice

by Barnett, Robert W.; Blumner, Jacob S

• ISBN13: 9780205321865
• ISBN10: 0205321860
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice offers, in unparalleled breadth and depth, the major scholarship on writing centers. This up-to-date resource for students, instructors, and scholars anthologizes essays on all major areas of interest to writing center theorists and practitioners. Seven sections provide a comprehensive view of writing centers: history, progress, theorizing the writing center, defining the writing center's place, writing-across-the curriculum, the practice of tutoring, cultural issues, and technology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Foreword	xiii
Christina Murphy
A History Of Writing Centers: Looking In The Rear-View Mirror	1	(60)
The Writing Clinic and the Writing Laboratory	3	(7)
Robert H. Moore
Early Writing Centers: Toward a History	10	(12)
Peter Carino
Writing Centers: A Long View	22	(7)
Judith Summerfield
The National Writing Centers Association as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Decade	29	(12)
Joyce Kinkead
``Our Little Secret'': A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions	41	(20)
Elizabeth H. Boquet
``The Idea Of A Writing Center'': Building A Theoretical Foundation	61	(92)
The Idea of a Writing Center	63	(16)
Stephen M. North
Revisiting ``The Idea of a Writing Center''	79	(13)
Stephen M. North
Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center	92	(8)
Andrea Lunsford
Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies	100	(10)
Eric H. Hobson
The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory	110	(14)
Christina Murphy
Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task	124	(15)
Peter Carino
The Unpromising Future of Writing Center	139	(14)
Terrance Riley
Defining The Writing Center's Place: Administrative And Institutional Issues	153	(50)
Solutions and Trade-Offs in Writing Center Administration	155	(13)
Muriel Harris
What Should the Relationship between the Writing Center and the Writing Program Be?	168	(8)
Mark L. Waldo
Mending the Damaged Path: How to Avoid Conflict of Expectation When Setting up a Writing Center	176	(13)
Karen Rodis
Perceptions, Realities, and Possibilities: Central Administration and Writing Centers	189	(5)
Jeanne Simpson
Redefining Our Existence: An Argument for Short- and Long-Term Goals and Objectives	194	(9)
Robert W. Barnett
The Process Of Tutoring: Connecting Theory And Practice	203	(130)
Peer Tutoring and the ``Conversation of Mankind''	206	(13)
Kenneth A. Bruffee
Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work	219	(6)
Jeff Brooks
A Critique of Pure Tutoring	225	(17)
Linda K. Shamoon
Deborah H. Burns
Are Writing Centers Ethical?	242	(18)
Irene L. Clark
Dave Healy
Look Back and Say ``So What'': The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor	260	(12)
Jean Kiedaisch
Sue Dinitz
Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials vs. Peer-Response Groups	272	(16)
Muriel Harris
Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms?	288	(8)
John Trimbur
Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well	296	(6)
Christina Murphy
The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference	302	(14)
Thomas Newkirk
Difficult Clients and Tutor Dependency: Helping Overly Dependent Clients Become More Independent Writers	316	(10)
Kristin Walker
An Ongoing Tutor-Training Program	326	(7)
Evelyn Posey
Welcoming Diversity: Multiple Cultures In The Writing Center	333	(68)
Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers	335	(15)
Marilyn M. Cooper
``Whispers of Coming and Going'': Lessons from Fannie	350	(18)
Anne Dipardo
Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer	368	(8)
Judith K. Powers
Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center	376	(15)
Julie Neff
Cultural Diversity in the Writing Center: Defining Ourselves and our Challenges	391	(10)
Judith Kilborn
Writing Centers And Writing Across The Curriculum: A Symbiotic Relationship?	401	(72)
The Writing Center's Role in the Writing Across the Curriculum Program: Theory and Practice	403	(5)
Ray Wallace
Independence and Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers	408	(7)
Louise Z. Smith
The Last Best Place for Writing across the Curriculum: The Writing Center	415	(11)
Mark L. Waldo
A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center	426	(16)
Muriel Harris
Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection	442	(16)
Michael A. Pemberton
Writing Centers and WAC Programs as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change	458	(15)
Christina Murphy
Joe Law
Beyond The Physical Space: Technology In The Writing Center	473	(98)
Straddling the Virtual Fence	475	(19)
Eric H. Hobson
Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History	494	(27)
Peter Carino
Online Writing Labs (OWLS): A Taxonomy of Options and Issues	521	(20)
Muriel Harris
Michael Pemberton
From Place to Space: Perceptual and Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center	541	(14)
Dave Healy
Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring	555	(6)
David Coogan
Information Literacy and the Writing Center	561	(10)
Irene L. Clark
Index	571