Selected Chapters from Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond (2)
This is part of our feature around the edited collection titled Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond, published by Routledge in June 2022. We would like to thank Max Orsini and Loren Kleinman, co-editors of Student Writing Tutors for making this series possible. We have two more chapters coming out as an exclusive preview for our blog readers. Don't forget to check out our text-based interviews with Max and Loren and other chapters (posted: Chen; to be posted: Junaid, Sleiman)!
Selected Chapters from Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond (1)
This is part of our feature around the edited collection titled Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond, published by Routledge in June 2022. We would like to thank Max Orsini and Loren Kleinman, co-editors of Student Writing Tutors for making this series possible. We have three more chapters coming out as an exclusive preview for our blog readers. Don't forget to check out our text-based interviews with Max and Loren!
Interview with Dr. Max Orsini and Loren Kleinman on Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond
This is the first installment of a 4-part series around the edited collection titled Student Writing Tutors in their Own Words: Global Voices on Writing Centers and Beyond, published by Routledge in June 2022. In this post, Max Orsini and Loren Kleinman, co-editors of Student Writing Tutors, share their ideas and vision behind this edited collection. Stay tuned for an exclusive preview of four chapters in the coming weeks!
Rewind & Reset: Multimodal Composing: Beyond the Text
For this month's Rewind and Reset, we would like to feature "Multimodal Composing: Beyond the Text" from the September/October issue of WLN in 2019, a special issue on multimodal writing and writing centers.
Faculty of Health Sciences Writing Lab: University of Cape Town
The Writing Lab was established in 2015, unintentionally coinciding with the rise of student activism movements, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall. These called strongly for a transformed, decolonial, and Afrocentric approach to economically, culturally, and epistemologically accessible tertiary education in South Africa. Although some experienced this as an attack on academic traditions, for the Writing Lab, it only strengthened our resolve to consciously engage the transformative ideology of the academic literacies approach through socially-just practices (Muna et al., 2019).
Rewind & Reset: From STEM to Center: Or What I Learned from Tutoring Engineers
The author, Brandy Ball Blake, shared that she focused on professional writing genres, audience, and rhetorical purposes when it came to tutoring engineering students. Blake also offered a few practical solutions to how to work with engineering (and STEM) students in the writing center.
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