Preface |
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Introduction |
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Part I: Writing Centers and Institutional Change |
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What Writing Center History Can Tell Us about Writing Center Practice |
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Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors |
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3 | (10) |
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Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea |
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13 | (8) |
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Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos |
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21 | (12) |
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The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds, Development, Vision |
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33 | (12) |
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Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development |
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45 | (8) |
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Managing the Writing Center |
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Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center |
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53 | (18) |
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``If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail'': Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors |
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71 | (8) |
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A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center |
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79 | (14) |
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Managing the Center: The Director as Coach |
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93 | (10) |
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Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers |
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103 | (12) |
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Directors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus |
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115 | (12) |
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Responding to Institutional Settings/Demands |
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The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting |
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127 | (8) |
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Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center |
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135 | (12) |
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Writing Centers in the Small College |
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147 | (6) |
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Writing Centers for Graduate Students |
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153 | (12) |
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Tutoring in a Remedial/Developmental Learning Context |
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165 | (14) |
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Examining Writing Center Director--Assistant Director Relationships |
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179 | (8) |
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There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing |
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187 | (12) |
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Writing Centers and the Administration |
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Managing Encounters With Central Administration |
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199 | (16) |
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Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success |
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215 | (10) |
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Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location |
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225 | (12) |
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Approaching Assessment as if It Matters |
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237 | (12) |
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Part II: Writing Centers and Praxis |
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Ethics in the Writing Center |
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Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship |
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249 | (12) |
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Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center |
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261 | (10) |
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On Not ``Bowling Alone'' in the Writing Center, or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education |
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271 | (10) |
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Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach |
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281 | (10) |
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Tutor Training in the Writing Center |
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Staffing a Writing Center with Professional Tutors |
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291 | (10) |
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Using Tutorial Principles to Train Tutors: Practicing Our Praxis |
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301 | (10) |
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Tutors Speak: What Do We Want from Our Writing Center Directors? |
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311 | (10) |
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Crossing Thresholds: Starting a Peer Tutoring Program |
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321 | (10) |
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of Certifying a Tutoring Program Through CRLA |
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331 | (8) |
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Writing Centers and Electronic Instruction |
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Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers |
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339 | (12) |
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Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online |
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351 | (8) |
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Implementing Electronic Portfolios as Part of the Writing Center: Connections, Benefits, Cautions, and Strategies |
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359 | (12) |
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When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students with Disabilities |
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371 | (8) |
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Writing Center Case Studies |
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Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers |
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379 | (14) |
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The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: A Site and Story Under Construction |
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393 | (10) |
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Working with Faculty Consultants in the Writing Center: Three Guidelines and a Case History |
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403 | (14) |
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Funding a Writing Center through a University Line |
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417 | (14) |
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Contributor Bios |
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431 | (12) |
Author Index |
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443 | (6) |
Subject Index |
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