1st Edition
Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies
Part 1: Writing Center History
1. Talking in the Middle: Why Writers Need Writing Tutors
2. "Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions
3. Reconsiderations: After "The Idea of a Writing Center"
Part 2: Critical Perspectives on Current Practices
4. Centering Difference: Student Agency and the Limits of "Comfortable" Collaboration
5. Breathing Lessons or Collaboration Is . . .
6. Avoiding Appropriation
7. Queering the Writing Center
8. Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race
9. Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces
10. Unmaking Gringo-Centers
Part 3: Writing Center Research
11. Tick-Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center
12. What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project
13. Theory In/To Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center
14. Decisions . . . Decisions: Who Chooses to Use the Writing Center?
Part 4: Writing Centers in New Spaces
15. Writing Fellows as WAC Change Agents: Changing What? Changing Whom? Changing How?
16. When the Community Writes: Re-envisioning the SLCC DiverseCity Writing Series
17. "We’re All in This Thing Together": An Equitable and Flexible Approach to Language Diversity in the Stellenbosch University Writing Lab
18. Situation Definition and the Online Synchronous Writing Conference
Biography
Neal Lerner is professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on writing, literacy, teaching/tutoring writing, and creative nonfiction.
Paula Gillespie is associate professor emerita of English at Florida International University, where she directed the Center for Excellence in Writing.
