Rewind & Reset: Muriel Harris on the WLN Origin and Internationalizing Writing Centers
In this month’s Rewind and Reset, our blog team is returning to our chat with the founder and editor-in-chief of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship and the CWCAB blog in 2021. Muriel Harris, or as we affectionately call her ‘Mickey’, is the brains and heart behind the journal and the blog. In this conversation, Mickey told us about the beginnings of the blog and where she sees the writing center field evolving and internationalizing.
The English Writing Corner at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Molly McHarg, Prokriti Das Srishti, and Sadia Sarker Aony on their new writing center at the University of Dhaka! In this writing center spotlight, our new colleagues inquire about writing center administration questions and share their plans to serve a linguistically and culturally diverse community of writers. Please leave comments to encourage and welcome them to our blog community. Thank you so much for sharing your work, Prokriti, Sadia, and Dr. McHarg!
Connecting with Likeminded People: The EWCA Summer Institute
After a long waiting period through the pandemic, finally this year the European Writing Centers Association (EWCA) hosted its second Summer Institute (SI). The SI brought together writing center directors, writing consultants, professionals who were interested in setting up writing centers, and professors from universities of the USA, Qatar, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Georgia, the Czech Republic and Lebanon.
Rewind & Reset: Transferring Academic Writing to the Workplace by Lawrence Cleary
In this month’s Rewind and Reset, our blog team is returning to Lawrence Cleary's report on the 10th Anniversary Symposium on Writing. The theme of the symposium was teaching for transfer across contexts. As colleagues in writing centers and/or writing programs continue to think about the importance of writing beyond educational contexts, we hope this piece offers some food for thought.
Uganda Christian University’s Writing Center Now a Year Old!
We cannot believe it’s already been a year since the team at Uganda Christian University joined our blog to share their experiences proposing the Writing Center. The center officially opened in August 2022. Mr. Martin Kajubi, the Acting Manager of the center, joined us again to share how he and his team are adapting the U.S. writing center model to suit the students’ contexts.
Rewind & Reset: Rethinking What to Preserve as Writing Centers Move Online
Join us as we re-read Dr. Lisa Bell’s article about how to navigate expectations about embracing more online tools for the center and still remain effective, adaptable, and professional.
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