Redefining roles : the professional, faculty, and graduate consultant's guide to writing centers / edited by Megan Swihart Jewell, Joseph Cheatle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jewell, Megan Swihart, editor.

Cheatle, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing centers.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 269 pages)

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Recognizes and provides sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers. A number of writing centers employ non-peer consultants, yet most training manuals are geared toward undergraduate tutoring practices. This addresses this gap in the literature while initiating new conversations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Redefining training for faculty tutors : practical strategies for creating sustainable professional development / Miriam E. Laufer

Modular training for professional writing center consultants / Fallon N. Allison

Examining assumptions about training and development for writing center professional consultants / Anne Shiell

Reading between the lines : professional tutor training with the Stanislavski system for actors / Irina Ruppo

Professional tutors, shifting identities : narratives from the center / Kimberly Fahle Peck, Lisa Nicole Tyson, Amanda Gomez, Steffani Dambruch

Teachers vs. tutors : is there a place for faculty tutors in a university writing center? / Arundhati Sanyal, Kelly A. Shea

Between definitions : negotiating the role of professional writing consultants online / Matthew Sharkey-Smith

Faculty & professional tutors, the writing center, and STEM / Catherine Siemann

When is a peer not a peer? Negotiating authority and expertise in graduate student writing consultations / Marcus Weakley, Mark Pedretti

Integrating graduate student consultants : community building in writing centers through onboarding and mentorship / Genie Giaimo, Joseph Cheatle

Critical mentorship in the writing center : teaching intentional kindness and rhetoric of respect in staff education / Anna Sicari

Graduate tutor professional development - and collaborative leadership - in an undergraduate writing center / Rebecca Nowacek, Matt Burchanoski, Danielle Clapham, Will Fitzsimmons, Alex Frissell, Lisa Lamson, Anna Scanlon

(Graduate) friends with benefits : writing relationships into the center / Elise Dixon, Cassie J. Brownell

Making the invisible visible : valuing labor in the design of an observation-based mentor program for graduate student writing tutors / Alex Wulff

Investing in graduate tutor training : a sustained approach / Vicki Behrens, Alex Funt

Disciplinary ambassadors in the graduate writing center : a professional development framework for graduate consultants from diverse fields / Kristin Messuri

Genre knowledge and (cross)-disciplinary awareness : preparing graduate consultants to support proposals / Elizabeth Festa

An inquiry-based approach for customizing training for graduate student tutors / Megan Boeshart Burelle, Meagan Thompson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646420841

1646420845

OCLC:

1240263744