The Longman Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice

by Barnett, Robert W.; Blumner, Jacob S

• ISBN13: 9780205574179
• ISBN10: 0205574173
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-27
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The Longman Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practiceoffers, 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

All sections begin with "Introduction."

Forward by Christina Murphy

Preface

A History Of Writing Centers: Looking In The Rearview Mirror

The Writing Clinic and the Writing Laboratory

Early Writing Centers: Toward a History

Writing Centers: A Long View

The National Writing Center as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Decade

Our Little Secret: A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions

"The Idea Of A Writing Center": Building A Theoretical Foundation

The Idea of a Writing Center

Revisiting 'The Idea of a Writing Center.'

Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center

Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies

The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory

Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task

The Unpromising Future of Writing Centers

Defining The Writing Center'S Place: Administrative and Institutional Issues

Solutions and Trade-Offs in Writing Center Administration

What Should the Relationship Be between the Writing Center and the Writing Program

Mending the Damaged Path: How to Avoid Conflict of Expectations When Setting Up a Writing Center

Perceptions, Realities, and Possibilities: Central Administration and Writing Centers

Redefining Our Existence: An Argument for Short- and Long-Term Goals and Objectives

The Process Of Tutoring: Connecting Theory and Practice

Peer Tutoring and the `Conversation of Mankind.'

Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work

A Critique of Pure Tutoring

Are Writing Centers Ethical?

Look Back and Say `So What': The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor

Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials vs. Peer-Response Groups

Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms

Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well

The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference

Difficult Clients and Tutor Dependency: Helping the Overly Dependent Clients Become More Independent Writers

An Ongoing Tutor-Training Program

Welcoming Diversity: Multiple Cultures In The Writing Center

Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers

'Whispers of Coming and Going': Lessons From Fannie

Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer

Learning Disabilities in the Writing Center

Cultural Diversity in the Writing Center: Defining Ourselves and Our Challenges

Writing Centers and Writing Across The Curriculum: A Symbiotic Relationship?

The Writing Center's Role in the Writing across the Curriculum Program: Theory and Practice

Independence and Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers

The Last Best Place for Writing across the Curriculum: The Writing Center

A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center

Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection

Writing Centers as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change

Beyond The Physical Space: Technology In The Writing Center

Straddling the Virtual Fence

Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History

Online Writing Labs (OWLS): A Taxonomy of Options

From Place to Space: Perceptual Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center

Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring

Information Literacy and the Writing Center

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