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Spring 2021 Newsletter Issue
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What a year! We know this has been a tumultuous and exhausting year for many. We hope that in the midst of it all, you remain safe and healthy. .
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Despite the challenges we've all faced this year juggling online administration, teaching and tutoring, we've had wonderful contributions and conversations with our colleagues around the world. Thanks to all of our contributors to the blog this year, especially to Aditi Diwan, Laura Feibush, Anuj Gupta, Dr. Takeshi Kawamoto, Justin Laiti, Dr. Stacia Lael Moroski-Rigney, Alla Savelieva and Dunya Suleymanova.
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In this Spring 2021 issue of our newsletter, we provide a digest of some of the contributions that your writing center colleagues around the world have brought to you via the blog. These include stimulating conversations from the Slow Agency podcast, writing center work in other parts of the world (Azerbaijan, Brazil, Japan, and India), and reflective pieces by writing tutors.
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We three have the intention of slowing down a little bit over the next several weeks, so we can regain our energy and come back to our work here refreshed. We'll be off from June 30th to August 9th. Wishing everyone a little bit of room to catch your breath, rest, restore, and refresh.
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The 'Slow Agency' Podcast
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Created and hosted by your CWCAB editors, the goal of this podcast is to open up time and space in this productivity-saturated culture to slow down and dialogue with leading thinkers and practitioners in writing studies worldwide. The title of the podcast is inspired by Laura Micciche's 2011 article titled For Slow Agency.
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Let’s listen, process, think, and dialogue about ideas and issues that either directly or tangentially impact writing center praxis. You can also follow Slow Agency on Anchor, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
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Ted and Karen take us behind the scenes to understand how the WLN editorial team mentors and collaborates with writers.
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The first half of our conversation centers on Inoue's work on labor-based contract grading and the writing classroom.
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In part 2, our conversation centers on Inoue's work on writing centers and antiracist pedadogies.
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Stay tuned for what's next!
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Coming soon, we have Elizabeth Kleinfeld on grief and WPA work, Bob Yagelski on writing as a way of being, and Laura Greenfield on standard English ideology. Following these inspiring conversations, we will turn to international voices and international perspectives on writing center praxis! Got ideas about guests? Email us.
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We would like to thank Anuj Gupta (University of Arizona), Dr. Takeshi Kawamoto (University of Hiroshima, Japan), Thais Rodrigues Cons and Dr. Ron Martinez (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) and Alla Savelieva and Dunya Suleymanova (ADA University, Azerbaijan) for introducing writing centers outside North America to our community! Our goal is to keep adding writing centers around the world to this Google Map! If you're interested in submitting a piece about your writing center, check out our submission guidelines.
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ADA University is Azerbaijan’s first English-medium public university, which grew from Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, a training school for diplomats. Founded in 2012, the mission of the Write Space is to foster a strong university-wide English writing community by providing individual support and organizing workshops and other writing-related events.
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Just two decades ago, there was relatively much less academic writing instruction at the higher education level in the country. However, over the last two decades, a slow but steady growth in writing programs and centers has happened. Ashoka University, which was one of the first that began this work, continues to be a significant voice and model in the expanding writing pedagogy movement in India.
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The Hiroshima University (HU) Writing Center was established in 2013. Located inside the HU Library, it is operated by the library and the URA Division, Department of Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration. The center supports students in both Japanese and English academic writing.
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CAPA (Academic Publishing Advisory Center, in Portuguese "Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica") is the first true writing center in Brazil, founded in 2016. There is a need to talk about writing (even in Portuguese) since students feel pressured and have few opportunities to reflect upon their writing processes. Also, scholars and students in Brazil suffer from enormous pressure to publish articles in prestigious, high-impact journals, and this usually entails publishing in English -- a phenomenon related to the "internationalization of higher education".
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We CWCAB editors would like to invite writing tutors to share creative and/or academic pieces that take a specific angle on an issue within writing center praxis (theory or practice). Go to our submission guidelines for detail. Questions? Email us!
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From Aditi Diwan: As someone who moved to California from India at the age of eleven, I understand how even a small language correction...By recounting and reflecting on my own experiences, I learned to ease the spotlight off myself and onto the client during sessions. I started thinking of their language differences as something that could enrich writing by adding uniqueness in the way they understand and convey meaning.
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In this piece, Dunya Suleymanova, a writing consultant from ADA University in Baku, Azerbaijan, captures the moments in her work when she hears "Hello, my name is..."
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May Jampathom reflects: Now that we meet through chat, students are literally sharing their writing even more, just in the very act of getting help with their writing (How’s that for immersion?). And as they write, I am immersed in the possibility of personality once more. I start to read— to see— their lexicon, slang, accents, and tones of voice. Something weird is happening: I think even more about them as people.
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The COVID-19 page has been one of our projects in 2020-2021. We have received in total 72 submission from 22 countries, including the U.S. What our colleagues have shared remains largely relevant to navigating writing center work in a post-pandemic world. We invite you for a revisit!
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Interested in Connecting with Colleagues Across Borders?
WriteNow: write-now@sympa.sun.ac.za (South Africa)
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MENAWCA: mailinglist@menawca.org (Middle-East and North Africa)
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