Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TRICKSTER AT YOUR TA B L E -- 3 BEAT (NOT ) THE (POOR) CLOCK -- 4 ORIGAMI, ANYONE? -- 5 STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: -- 6 EVERYDAY RACISM -- Appendix -- 7 EVERYDAY ADMINISTRAT I O N , O R , ARE WE...
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TRICKSTER AT YOUR TA B L E -- 3 BEAT (NOT ) THE (POOR) CLOCK -- 4 ORIGAMI, ANYONE? -- 5 STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: -- 6 EVERYDAY RACISM -- Appendix -- 7 EVERYDAY ADMINISTRAT I O N , O R , ARE WE HAVING FUN Y E T ? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
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IntroductionTrickster at your table -- Beat (not) the (poor) clock -- Origami anyone? Tutors as learners -- Straighten up and fly right: writers as tutors, tutors as writers -- Everyday racism: anti-racism work and writing center practice -- Everyday administration, or are we having fun yet?
The writing center director's resource book
Erschienen:
2006
Verlag:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, N.J
The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide...
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The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals both new and seasoned are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies o
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Front Cover; The Writing Center Director's Resource Book; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Writing Centers and Institutional Change; 1. What Writing Center History Can Tell Us about Writing Center Practice; 1. Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors: Neal Lerner; 2. Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea: Carl Glover; 3. Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos: Stephen Ferruci and Susan DeRosa
4. The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds, Development, Vision: Paula Gillespie, Brad Hughes, Neal Lerner, and Anne Ellen Geller5. Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development: Ray Wallace and Susan Lewis Wallace; 2. Managing the Writing Center; 6. Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center: Pamela B. Childers; 7. "If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail": Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors: Kelly Lowe; 8. A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center: Margaret Weaver
9. Managing the Center: The Director as Coach: Michael Mattison10. Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers: Brad Peters; 11. Directors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus: Lauren Fitzgerald and Denise Stephenson; 3. Responding to Institutional Settings/Demands; 12. The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting: Amy Ward Martin; 13. Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center: Clinton Gardner and Tiffany Rousculp; 14. Writing Centers in the Small College: Byron L. Stay
15. Writing Centers for Graduate Students: Helen Snively, Traci Freeman, and Cheryl Prentice16. Tutoring in a Remedial/Developmental Learning Context: Dennis Paoli; 17. Examining Writing Center Director-Assistant Director Relationships: Kevin Dvorak and Ben Rafoth; 18. There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing: Albert C. DeCiccio; 4. Writing Centers and the Administration; 19. Managing Encounters With Central Administration: Jeanne Simpson; 20.Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success: Bruce W. Speck
21. Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location: Joan Mullin, Peter Carino, Jane Nelson, and Kathy Evertz22. Approaching Assessment as if It Matters: Joan Hawthorne; Part II: Writing Centers and Praxis; 1. Ethics in the Writing Center; 23. Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship: Rebecca Moore Howard and Tracy Hamler Carrick; 24. Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center: Michael A. Pemberton
25. On Not "Bowling Alone" in the Writing Center, or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education: Christina Murphy