Rewind & Reset: Collaborating, Calibrating, and Control: Writing Center Directors Navigate Institutional Interactions
The start of a new academic year might mark the beginning of many things for writing center folks, one of which could be collaboration with other stakeholders on campus. This month, we present you an article written by Elizabeth Powers on institutional collaboration.
A New Writing Center is Born in Rio, and a New Model Arises in Brazil
The writing center scene emerging in Brazil may break with a lot of the canon in the field, but in responding to specific local needs, may also be creating its own epistemology, methodology and unique contribution to writing center knowledge and practice.
Two of the WLN Editors Respond to Aspiring Editor’s Questions
In this feature piece, two of the WLN journal editors, Karen Johnson and Ted Roggenbuck, respond to some questions raised by a group of students who were taking an editing class. Their answers not only reveal unique opportunities and issues for editors across fields but also demonstrate the collaborative spirit that the WLN editorial team embodies. We give special thanks to Cara, McKenna, Margaret, and Stefano, and to Drs. Johnson and Roggenbuck for collaborating and bringing this article and its ideas to life.
Rewind & Reset: Making Assignment Prompts More Effective: Can Writing Center Tutors Help?
In this month's Rewind & Reset, we present you "Making Assignment Prompts More Effective: Can Writing Center Tutors Help?" from WLN May/June 2020 Issue. The co-authors, Erin Zimmerman and Emma Moghabghab, shared with us two WAC/WID projects: one focused on training tutors in preparation for collaboration with instructors, and the other in which tutors and instructors collaborated on revising assignment prompts.
American University at Beirut Writing Center
Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut (AUB) is a teaching-centered research university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. While AUB operates in the English language as aforementioned, the tutoring sessions run in both Arabic and English languages.
Rewind & Reset: Bridging Boundaries: Perceived Roles of Librarians and Writing Center Tutors in Supporting Student Research Writing
To echo this month's Dear CWCAB on writing center partnership, we would like to spotlight "Bridging Boundaries: Perceived Roles of Librarians and Writing Center Tutors in Supporting Student Research Writing" from the WLN special issue on writing center and library partnership from May/June 2021.
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