Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs

by Barnett, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780313306990
• ISBN10: 0313306990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-28
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

By examining the relationships between Writing Centers and WAC programs, this volume challenges the view that Writing Centers are marginalized and demonstrates how they are aggressively moving toward the curricular center of education. Reviews: "well written and well-researched collection....By the time I reached the end, I was convinced that collaboration serves the interests of both writing centers and WAC programs and was almost persuaded that perhaps the goal should be integration. Certainly, anyone contemplating this type of program collaboration would do well to use this book as a resource." ~ College English

Author Biography

ROBERT W. BARNETT is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Michigan-Flint.JACOB S BLUMNER is Assistant Professor of the University of Michigan--Flint, where he coordinates Writing Across the Curriculum efforts and teaches composition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix
Robert W. Barnett
Jacob S Blumner
1. The WAC/Writing Center Partnership: Creating a Campus-wide Writing Environment	1	(12)
Robert W. Barnett
Lois M. Rosen
2. The Writing Center as Ambassador Plenipotentiary in a Developing WAC Program	13	(20)
Scott Johnston
Bruce W. Speck
3. Authority and Initiation: Preparing Students for Discipline-specific Language Conventions	33	(12)
Jacob S Blumner
4. Neither Missionaries Nor Colonists Nor Handmaidens: What Writing Tutors Can Teach WAC Faculty about Inquiry	45	(14)
Carol Peterson Haviland
Sherry Green
Barbara Kime Shields
M. Todd Harper
5. Finding Common Ground When WAC Writing Center Directors Meet Neurotic Pride	59	(12)
Mark L. Waldo
Maria Madruga
6. When a Writing Center Undertakes a Writing Fellows Program	71	(18)
Richard Leahy
7. A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center	89	(16)
Muriel Harris
8. Writing Centers as WAC Centers: An Evolving Model	105	(14)
Peshe C. Kuriloff
9. Situating Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs in the Academy: Creating Partnerships for Change with Organizational Development Theory	119	(22)
Karen Vaught-Alexander
10. Creating a Virtual Space: The Role of the Web in Forging Writing Center/WAC Connections	141	(14)
Irene L. Clark
11. Writing Centers/WAC in Pharmacy Education: A Changing Prescription	155	(22)
Eric Hobson
Neal Lerner
12. Writing Center or Experimental Center for Faculty Research, Discovery, and Risk Taking?	177	(10)
Pamela B. Childers
13. Writing Centers and WAC Programs as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change	187	(14)
Christina Murphy
Joe Law
Selected Bibliography	201	(12)
Index	213	(6)
About the Editors and Contributors	219