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9780205321865

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205321865

  • ISBN10:

    0205321860

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Longman

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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

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