The Allyn and Bacon guide to writing center theory and practice / Robert W. Barnett, Jacob S. Blumner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Robert W.

Contributor:

Blumner, Jacob S., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Tutors and tutoring.

Writing centers.

Physical Description:

xvi, 576 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Writing center theory and practice

Place of Publication:

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2001]

Summary:

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice offers, in unparalleled breadth and depth, the major scholarship on writing centers. This up-to-date resource for students, instructors, and scholars anthologizes essays on all major areas of interest to writing center theorists and practitioners. Seven sections provide a comprehensive view of writing centers: history, progress, theorizing the writing center, defining the writing center's place, writing-across-the curriculum, the practice of tutoring, cultural issues, and technology. For writing tutors, educators, or anyone affiliated with writing centers.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A History of Writing Centers: Looking in the Rear-View Mirror 1

The Writing Clinic and the Writing Laboratory / Robert H. Moore 3

Early Writing Centers: Toward a History / Peter Carino 10

Writing Centers: A Long View / Judith Summerfield 22

The National Writing Centers Association as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Decade / Joyce Kinkead 29

"Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions / Elizabeth H. Boquet 41

Chapter 2 "The Idea of a Writing Center": Building a Theoretical Foundation 61

The Idea of a Writing Center / Stephen M. North 63

Revisiting "The Idea of a Writing Center" / Stephen M. North 79

Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center / Andrea Lunsford 92

Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies / Eric H. Hobson 100

The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory / Christina Murphy 110

Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task / Peter Carino 124

The Unpromising Future of Writing Centers / Terrance Riley 139

Chapter 3 Defining the Writing Center's Place: Administrative and Institutional Issues 153

Solutions and Trade-Offs in Writing Center Administration / Muriel Harris 155

What Should the Relationship between the Writing Center and the Writing Program Be? / Mark L. Waldo 168

Mending the Damaged Path: How to Avoid Conflict of Expectation When Setting up a Writing Center / Karen Rodis 176

Perceptions, Realities, and Possibilities: Central Administration and Writing Centers / Jeanne Simpson 189

Redefining Our Existence: An Argument for Short- and Long-Term Goals and Objectives / Robert W. Barnett 194

Chapter 4 The Process of Tutoring: Connecting Theory and Practice 203

Peer Tutoring and the "Conversation of Mankind" / Kenneth A. Bruffee 206

Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work / Jeff Brooks 219

A Critique of Pure Tutoring / Linda K. Shamoon, Deborah H. Burns 225

Are Writing Centers Ethical? / Irene L. Clark, Dave Healy 242

Look Back and Say "So What": The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor / Jean Kiedaisch, Sue Dinitz 260

Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials vs. Peer-Response Groups / Muriel Harris 272

Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms? / John Trimbur 288

Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well / Christina Murphy 296

The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference / Thomas Newkirk 302

Difficult Clients and Tutor Dependency: Helping Overly Dependent Clients Become More Independent Writers / Kristin Walker 316

An Ongoing Tutor-Training Program / Evelyn Posey 326

Chapter 5 Welcoming Diversity: Multiple Cultures in the Writing Center 333

Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers / Marilyn M. Cooper 335

"Whispers of Coming and Going": Lessons from Fannie / Anne DiPardo 350

Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer / Judith K. Powers 368

Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center / Julie Neff 376

Cultural Diversity in the Writing Center: Defining Ourselves and our Challenges / Judith Kilborn 391

Chapter 6 Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum: A Symbiotic Relationship? 401

The Writing Center's Role in the Writing across the Curriculum Program: Theory and Practice / Ray Wallace 403

Independence and Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers / Louise Z. Smith 408

The Last Best Place for Writing across the Curriculum: The Writing Center / Mark L. Waldo 415

A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center / Muriel Harris 426

Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection / Michael A. Pemberton 442

Writing Centers and WAC Programs as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change / Christina Murphy, Joe Law 458

Chapter 7 Beyond the Physical Space: Technology in the Writing Center 473

Straddling the Virtual Fence / Eric H. Hobson 475

Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History / Peter Carino 494

Online Writing Labs (OWLS): A Taxonomy of Options and Issues / Muriel Harris, Michael Pemberton 521

From Place to Space: Perceptual and Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center / Dave Healy 541

Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring / David Coogan 555

Information Literacy and the Writing Center / Irene L. Clark 561.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0205321860

OCLC:

44775297