Mindful Tutors, Embodied Writers: Positioning Mindfulness Meditation as a Writing Strategy to Optimize Cognitive Load and Potentialize Writing Center Tutors' Supportive Roles [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, I examine the potential that mindfulness meditation has to re-frame and expand the affective, supportive roles of writing center tutors.
Johnson, Sarah
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Turning classroom environments into centers of writing [PDF]
, 2011 Asking a student to write a paper without the opportunity to TALK about the writing beforehand is like asking members of an orchestra to perform a concert without any instruments. Writing Centers exist to TALK to writers.
Mott, Ann
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Sustaining Argument: Centralizing the Role of the Writing Center in Program Assessment [PDF]
, 2011 In “Why Assessment?” (2009), Gerald Graff argues that the critical conversations arising from regular program assessment are often as important as the actual findings themselves: outcomes assessment, he writes, is not only fundamental to measuring ...
Jewell, M. S.
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From Grammatical to Global: The WAC/Writing Center Connection [PDF]
, 2009 In a 1999 essay reporting a synoptic history of writing center theory and practice, Elizabeth Boquet honestly laments her feelings of boredom with writing center scholarship up to that time.
Corbett, Steven, LaFrance, Michelle
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"We Don't Do That Here": Calling Out Deficit Discourse in the Writing Center to Reframe Multilingual Graduate Support [PDF]
, 2016 Over the years, as writing center tutors, graduate assistants, and administrators, we have witnessed the challenges facing multilingual graduate student writers on their quest for academic writing support.
Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica +2 more
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THE NES WRITING AND COMMUNICATION CENTER: THE CASE FOR STUDENT-ORIENTED WRITING CENTERS IN RUSSIA
Высшее образование в России, 2016 The Writing and Communication Center (WCC) at the New Economic School (NES) turned five years old in 2016 and remains the oldest writing center in Russia.
Laura Ashley Squires
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Reaching In, Reaching Out: A Tale of Administrative Experimentation and the Process of Administrative Inclusion [PDF]
, 2010 Universities often have a variety of academic programs and initiatives dedicated to the goal of helping students achieve effective communication skills, but these programs and initiatives can change quickly during different moments of institutional and ...
PreJean, Kelli
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Writing Center Consultations on L2 Writers’ Essay Writing Skills
Languages, 2018 With the international growth of English-medium education, tertiary institutions are increasingly providing academic support services to L2 students, and thus, the number of writing centers working with L2 student writers has also increased.
Shanthi Tiruchittampalam +3 more
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Beyond Tutoring: Mapping The Invisible Landscape of Writing Center Work [PDF]
, 2012 In their call for papers for this special issue of Praxis, the editors speculate that most writing centers assume various roles beyond those implied by the triage model of fix-it consultations. We agree.
Jackson, Rebecca +1 more
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, 1998 As computers have brought important developments to composition studies, writing centers have found themselves creating and improvising applications for their own work and often for the writing programs and institutions in which they live. Online tutorials, websites with an array of downloadable resources for students, scheduling and email ...
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