Opening the Door to Discourse: Cooperation, Authority, and the Inner-City High School Writing Center [PDF]
Journals like Praxis repeatedly demonstrate that writing centers are constructive spaces where students can receive individualized support and guidance throughout the writing process.
Feltenberger, Alaina
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Between the Lines: Writing Center Classes in Pedagogical Perspective [PDF]
The CFP for this spring 2007 issue of Praxis invites us to consider the writing center and the classroom as separate entities with complementary, but ultimately distinct, practices, methods, and goals. This perspective is by no means new.
Tedrowe, Melissa
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Review of Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, Edited by David M. Sheridan and James A. Inman [PDF]
While writing center directors will certainly want to read Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, a new collection edited by David M.
Gabor, Catherine
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Eliciting Learner Knowledge: Enabling Focused Practice through an Open-Source Online Tool
Eliciting and interpreting students’ ideas are essential skills in teaching, yet pre-service teachers (PSTs) rarely have adequate opportunities to develop these skills.
Meredith Thompson +9 more
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Toward Authentic Dialogue: Origins of the Fishbowl Method and Implications for Writing Center Work [PDF]
Dialogue is central to a writing center’s mission. Whether we think of dialogue as the literal exchange of words between two people or as a method for prompting a creative openness to others’ perspectives, writers, tutors, and writing center ...
Garrison, Kristen +1 more
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Alternative Venues: An EFL Writing Center Outside the University [PDF]
Recent years have seen an increasing presence of writing centers in diverse English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings, particularly in East Asia and in Europe (Bräuer; Chang).
Duric, Snezana, Schreiber, Ricker Brooke
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A Compelling Collaboration: The First Year Writing Program, Writing Center, and Directed Self-Placement [PDF]
At Rhode Island College (RIC), Becky Caouette, Director of Writing, and Claudine Griggs, Writing Center Director, are invested in helping students become better writers. That’s our job, and our privilege.
Caouette, Becky Lynn, Griggs, Claudine
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Animals in Human Situations in Ancient Egyptian Ostraca and Papyri
It has been said that the ancient Egyptians were raised to tolerate all kinds of toil and hardship; they nevertheless also liked to amuse themselves with comic relief in their everyday life. For example, ancient Egyptian drawing can be quite accurate and
Azza Ezzat
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Long Night Against Procrastination: A Collaborative Take On An International Event [PDF]
The Long Night Against Procrastination is an international tutoring event created by the writing center at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany in 2010 (“Lange Nacht Der Aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten”).
Kiscaden, Elizabeth, Nash, LeAnn
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Faculty Consultations: An Extra Dimension to the University of Wyoming Writing Center [PDF]
Do we not have enough to do when consulting with students? Why reach out to faculty? The simple answer is that we feel our writing center work is accomplished in collaboration with both faculty and students.
Garner, Margaret
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