A Forest in the City: Connecting the Work of the Wits Writing Centre with WI Courses at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Wits Writing Centre (WWC) was one of the first writing centres in South Africa, running informally from 1996 and formally established in 2000. We work with a comparatively large consultant group, usually around 25, and seek to use their collective energy to attract other students and draw them into conversations which are anything but remedial.
Crafting a Practice of Our Own : A Writing Center in Mexico
I quickly realized that the real challenge involved educating writing tutors so as to infuse a collaborative and horizontal approach to our practice. This ultimately implies a shift in the learning culture with respect to writing in Mexican higher education; here, writing has not traditionally been associated with critical thinking, reflection, and self-positioning. Moreover, writing instruction in Mexico has historically focused more on the product with an emphasis on correction, which makes peer tutoring such a different approach.
Connecting MENA Writing Centers Through Data
There was a very strong need to build the research infrastructure in the region and to increase the number of MENA voices in writing center scholarship. Thus, the co-authors of this blog post formed a research team and received the summer 2020 IWCA research grant to begin the process of developing a knowledge database of MENA writing centers.
Rewind & Reset: Stories and Maps: Narrative Tutoring Strategies for Working with Dissertation Writers
In this article, Paul Barron and Louis Cicciarelli described two approaches to help dissertation writers look at their work with storytelling and mapping. We hope this provides you new ideas about working with writers and tutor education.
Rewind & Reset: Startup Multiliteracy Centers and Faculty Collaboration on Multimodal Pedagogy
Increasingly, writing centers are assisting students with compositing multimodal texts. In this article, Sohui Lee, Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center, CSU Channel Islands, and Russell Carpenter, Professor of English and Assistant Vice Provost of Eastern Kentucky University, shared three key strategies to launch multiliteracy centers in their own institution, respectively.
Writing Around the Globe: English Language Centers in Rwanda
In 2019, Margaret Bugingo, passionate educator and aspiring language learner, founded the IPRC-Huye English Language Center as a component of her Fulbright work in Rwanda to support those English Language Learners who wished to further develop their writing. Based in a more rural city in Rwanda, once the main “university city” in the country, IPRC-Huye now houses the first documented writing center in Rwanda.
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Over time, I learned that, as tutors, our role is not to perfect every paper or provide the ‘right’ answers. Rather, it’s to foster the tutee’s ability to think independently and develop their voice. By framing my advice in a way that gave them the freedom to interpret and apply it as they saw fit, I empowered them to take ownership of their learning process.
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