Spring 2009 (Volume 6 Issue 2) - Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:36:59 -0500

Chris Edwards writes outside the business school

Focus: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers

Tutoring Students From all Disciplines in a WAC Writing Center
by Andy Bourelle, University of Nevada-Reno
Meeting the needs of different discourse communities in one writing center

From Grammatical to Global: The WAC/Writing Center Connection
by Steven Corbett, Michelle LaFrance, University of Washington
The role of the writing center in an interdisciplinary environment

Wagging the Long Tail: From Push to Pull to Create the Writing Center 2.0
by Claudia Grinnell, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Revitalizing the writing center in a user-driven world

Implementing Writing Across the Curriculum Principles Into Departmental Writing Centers
by Tiffany Threatt, University of Nevada, Reno
WAC strategies in the writing center

Columns

From the Editors: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers
Praxis explores the relationship between WACs and WCs

Adapting Consulting Practices for Struggling Students
by Alanna Bitzel, Andrea Saathoff, and Kim Hoffman, University of Texas at Austin
Responding to the needs of students with learning disabilities

The Merciless Grammarian
The Merciless Grammarian spews his wrath on nasty problems of grammar, mechanics, and style

Consulting

Comfort Empowers
by Lindsay Sabatino, St. John's University
Taking the time to establish trust

Featured Center: Plymouth State Writing Center and Writing Across the Cirriculum Program
Praxis visits Plymouth State WC and WAC

Consultant Spotlight
Praxis interviews Priscilla Lizasuain, a History and Teaching of English major and a writing consultant at University of Illinois at Chicago

Training

What’s on Your Wall?
by Dr. Bonnie Devet, College of Charleston
Erasmus as model for modern writing center

Conference and Collaboration: Using Writing Centers in High School English Composition Instruction
by Anthony Scimone, Manhattanville College School of Education
Writing center practices in high school pedagogy

Strategies for Professional Writing
by Lisa Avery, University of California at Santa Barbara, Lisa Leit, University of Texas at Austin, and Allison Perlman, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark
Using the rhetorical writing process approach for resumes, personal statements, and cover letters

News & Announcements

CFP: Fall 2009 Issue of Praxis
CFP: Fall 2009 Issue of Praxis: Professionalization and the Writing Center

2009 NCPTW Ron Maxwell Award
The NCPTW Ron Maxwell Leadership Award

NCPTW 2009 Conference, Mount Holyoke
Leadership and Peer Tutoring: Hope, Vision, Collaboration, Action