The Writing Center Director's Resource Book

Herausgeber: Murphy, Christina; Stay, Byron

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For writing center directors and writing faculty, this reference offers practical, real-world content on writing centers & explores issues encountered by writing center directors at macro and micro levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 877g
• ISBN-13: 9780805856088
• ISBN-10: 0805856080
• Artikelnr.: 21436748

Autorenporträt

Christina Murphy, Byron Stay

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Writing Centers and Institutional Change.Section I: What Writing Center History Can Tell Us About Writing Center Practice.N. Lerner
Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors. C. Glover
Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea. S. Ferruci
S. DeRosa
Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos. P. Gillespie
B. Hughes
N. Lerner
A.E. Geller
The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds
Development
Vision. R. Wallace
S.L. Wallace
Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development. Section II: Managing the Writing Center.P.B. Childers
Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center. K. Lowe
"If You Fail to Plan
You Plan to Fail": Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors. M. Weaver
A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center. M. Mattison
Managing the Center: The Director as Coach. B. Peters
Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers. L. Fitzgerald
D. Stephenson
Directors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus. Section III: Responding to Institutional Settings/Demands.A.W. Martin
The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting. C. Gardner
T. Rousculp
Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center. B.L. Stay
Writing Centers in the Small College. H. Snively
T. Freeman
C. Prentice
Writing Centers for Graduate Students. D. Paoli
Tutoring in a Remedial/Developmental Learning Context. K. Dvorak
B. Rafoth
Examining Writing Center Director-Assistant Director Relationships. A.C. DeCiccio
There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing. Section IV: Writing Centers in the Administration.J. Simpson
Managing Encounters With Central Administration. B.W. Speck
Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success. J. Mullin
P. Carino
J. Nelson
K. Evertz
Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location. J. Hawthorne
Approaching Assessment as if It Matters. Part II: Writing Centers and Praxis.Section I: Ethics in the Writing Center.R.M. Howard
T.H. Carrick
Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship. M.A. Pemberton
Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center. C. Murphy
On Not "Bowling Alone" in the Writing Center
or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education. D. Bringhurst
Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach. Section II: Tutor Training in the Writing Center.S. Strang
Staffing a Writing Center With Professional Tutors. M. Harris
Using Tutorial Principles to Train Tutors: Practicing Our Praxis. C.P. Haviland
M. Trianosky
Tutors Speak: What Do We Want From Our Writing Center Directors? P. Gillespie
H. Kail
Crossing Thresholds: Starting a Peer Tutoring Program. B. Devet
The Good
the Bad
the Ugly of Certifying a Tutoring Program Through CRLA. Section III: Writing Centers and Electronic Instruction.D.M. Sheridan
Words
Images
Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers. L.E. Bell
Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online. B. Click
S. Magruder
Implementing Electronic Portfolios as Part of the Writing Center: Connections
Benefits
Cautions
and Strategies. L. Hawkes
When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students With Disabilities. Section IV: Writing Center Case Studies.P.B. Childers
Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers. K.T. Abels
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: A Site and Story Under Construction. M.A. Pemberton
Working With Faculty Consultants in the Writing Center: Three Guidelines and a Case History. E. Schreiber
Funding a Writing Center Through a University Line.