The center will hold : critical perspectives on writing center scholarship / edited by Michael A. Pemberton, Joyce Kinkead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pemberton, Michael A.

Kinkead, Joyce A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Writing centers.

Physical Description:

219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Pemberton and Kindead have compiled a major volume of essays engaging the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field, with the institutional, demographic, and financial challenges that the field must address in the coming decade. Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of research and pedagogy. The volume develops themes that Harris first aniculated to composition studies, and contributors use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead

The writing lab newsletter as history : tracing the growth of a scholarly community / Michael A. Pemberton

In the spirit of service : making writing center research a "featured character" / Nancy M. Grimm

Writing center assessment : searching for the "proof" of our effectiveness / Neal Lerner

Separation, initiation and return : tutor training manuals and writing center lore / Harvey Kail

Power and authority in peer tutoring / Peter Carino

Breathing lessons, or Collaboration is / Michele Eodice

(Re) shaping the profession : graduate courses in writing center theory, practice, and administration / Rebecca Jackson, Carrie Leverenz, Joe Law

Administration across the curriculum : or Practicing what we preach / Josephine A. Koster

An ideal writing center : re-imagining space and design / Leslie Hadfield ... [et al.]

Mentoring in electronic spaces : using resources to sustain relationships / James A. Inman and Donna M. Sewell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-210) and index.

ISBN:

0874215706

OCLC:

52471858