E22 – WLN Author Kara Wittman on the Writing Center is Not a Place
In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Anna Habib spoke to Kara Wittman who represented her co-authors Jenny Thomas and Ashlee Moreno on their article The Writing Center is Not a Place from the December 2022 issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. We hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to check out our interview with Sarah Rice on her Tutor's Column article titled Navigating the "New Normal" with Abnormal Discourse also from the December 2022 issue.
E21 – WLN Author Sarah Rice on Navigating the “New Normal” with Abnormal Discourse
In this episode, Weijia Li, Assistant Editor of the blog chatted with Sarah Rice, Writing Tutor from Dickinson College about Sarah's Tutor's Column article titled Navigating the "New Normal" with Abnormal Discourse from the December 2022 issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. We hope you enjoy it! Also don't forget to check out our interview with Kara Wittman on her co-authored article titled The Writing Center is Not a Place also from the December 202 issue.
E20 – Implementing Antiracist Practices in Writing Centers: A Dear CWCAB Episode
The content of this episode was based on Dear CWCAB, October 2022.
Crafting a Practice of Our Own : A Writing Center in Mexico
I quickly realized that the real challenge involved educating writing tutors so as to infuse a collaborative and horizontal approach to our practice. This ultimately implies a shift in the learning culture with respect to writing in Mexican higher education; here, writing has not traditionally been associated with critical thinking, reflection, and self-positioning. Moreover, writing instruction in Mexico has historically focused more on the product with an emphasis on correction, which makes peer tutoring such a different approach.
Connecting MENA Writing Centers Through Data
There was a very strong need to build the research infrastructure in the region and to increase the number of MENA voices in writing center scholarship. Thus, the co-authors of this blog post formed a research team and received the summer 2020 IWCA research grant to begin the process of developing a knowledge database of MENA writing centers.
Episode 19 – WLN Author Lucie Moussu on Poorly Designed Research Projects
In this episode, Esther Namubiru, our Associate Editor of the CWCAB blog, spoke with Dr. Lucie Moussu, Writing Center Director at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontaria, Cananda on her recent article titled The Ultimate Guide to Poorly Designed Research Projects, published on the September 2022 issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. A transcript of this conversation is available for download.
Rewind & Reset: Stories and Maps: Narrative Tutoring Strategies for Working with Dissertation Writers
In this article, Paul Barron and Louis Cicciarelli described two approaches to help dissertation writers look at their work with storytelling and mapping. We hope this provides you new ideas about working with writers and tutor education.
Episode 18 – Context and Collaboration in the Sub-Saharan Writing Center Community
For this episode, we invited Lillian Lyavaala (Uganda Christian University, Uganda), Rose Richards (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), and Tom Deans (University of Connecticut, USA) for a round table discussion on the state and trends of writing centers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Rewind & Reset: Startup Multiliteracy Centers and Faculty Collaboration on Multimodal Pedagogy
Increasingly, writing centers are assisting students with compositing multimodal texts. In this article, Sohui Lee, Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center, CSU Channel Islands, and Russell Carpenter, Professor of English and Assistant Vice Provost of Eastern Kentucky University, shared three key strategies to launch multiliteracy centers in their own institution, respectively.
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