Episode 17 – Dear CWCAB on Innovating Writing Centers to Expand WC
Slow Agency brings you this special episode where our guest host Graham Stowe shares the practical writing center advice they give the CWCAB blog readers in theblog series “Dear CWCAB”. Today’s episode is based on the September 2022 DearCWCAB article. The article was responding to a question about how to move writing center work forward.
Rewind & Reset: Collaborating, Calibrating, and Control: Writing Center Directors Navigate Institutional Interactions
The start of a new academic year might mark the beginning of many things for writing center folks, one of which could be collaboration with other stakeholders on campus. This month, we present you an article written by Elizabeth Powers on institutional collaboration.
Dear CWCAB, September 2022
What are some new services or approaches others are using to expand and move their writing centers forward?
A New Writing Center is Born in Rio, and a New Model Arises in Brazil
The writing center scene emerging in Brazil may break with a lot of the canon in the field, but in responding to specific local needs, may also be creating its own epistemology, methodology and unique contribution to writing center knowledge and practice.
Episode 16 – Write to Remember August 4th
In this episode, we spoke with the team of Write to Remember August 4th from Lebanon. We hope this episode inspires you to think about writing as a way for trauma healing and civic engagement.
Episode 15 – Dear CWCAB on Writing Centers and WAC/WID
Slow Agency brings you this special episode where colleagues Stacia Morosky-Rigney and Graham Stowe share the practical writing center advice they give the CWCAB blog readers in their blog series “Dear CWCAB”. Today’s episode is based on the May 2022 DearCWCAB article. The article was responding to a question about Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines.
Episode 14 – Susan Lawrence and Terry Myers Zawacki on Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center
We talked to Drs. Susan Lawrence and Terry Myers Zawacki about their edited collection Re/writing the Center: Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center, published by Utah State University Press in 2019.
Episode 13 – Joe Essid and Brian McTague on Change in the Writing Center
The episode is on the edited collection titled Writing Center at the Center of Change, an edited collection published in 2020. Listen to co-editors Joe Essid and Brian McTague to understand change in the writing center context and what that means for writing center professionals.
Episode 12 – Noreen Lape on Internationalizing the Writing Center
We spoke with Dr. Noreen Lape in September 2021 about her book Internationalizing the Writing Center: A Guide for Developing a Multilingual Writing Center, published by Parlor Press in 2020. Lape is Associate Provost of Academic Affairs and directs the Writing Program/Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center at Dickinson College, which offers writing tutoring in eleven languages.
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