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November/December 2023 Newsletter
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Thank you for your support this month (and this year!). Because of your continued readership, we have received more article contributions during these recent months than we expected. Alongside writing center spotlights and feature articles, writing center directors from as far as Turkey, Germany, and Ireland have joined the podcast Slow Agency to share their thoughts and advice on applying writing center theories in their local contexts. Please have a listen to their conversation below. Enjoy the newsletter!
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Happy Bodhi Day, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year!
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Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders
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A blog of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship
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Embracing AI in Writing Centers: A New Approach
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GenAI and the humanistic qualities of the writing center are not mutually exclusive.
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Visibility, network, and capacity: Creating an open access journal for writing studies in the MENA region
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By: Halle M. Neiderman, Sarah Elcheikhali, Dorota Fleszar, Marwa Mehio, and Amy Zenger As writing researchers, writing program administrators, and instructors of academic writing, we are keenly aware that our reach and potential are significantly handicapped (if not devastated) when we do not have a community we can turn to for support and to think through shared challenges. The goal …
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Institutional Accountability and Writing
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Like others in the writing center field, this blog’s editorial team are volunteers who balance their time between serving the writing center community and pursuing their own scholarly development. We use writing as a means to showcase that development but also as a site of inquiry about our field. At a recent editorial meeting, we found ourselves asking: To what extent does institutional accountability shift attention from writing as a process to writing as a product? We hope this reflection will inspire you to reflect and reconsider accountability as a writer, writing center consultant and director, and a scholar.
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Tutors as Promoters of Writing in a Brazilian University
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At LLAC, we tutors not only volunteer to help students reflect on their texts and their role in their discourse communities, we also try to contribute to fostering a culture of academic writing as a social practice at our university.
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Note: this piece is available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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WLN Commentary: “When a Measure Becomes a Target: The Dangers of Using Grades in Writing Center Assessments”
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In Bruce Bowles’ article titled “When a Measure Becomes a Target: The Dangers of Using Grades in Writing Center Assessments”, a very important issue was brought up, which concerned whether the use of students’ grades and/or GPAs is a proper way of assessing the effectiveness of a University Writing Center (UWC). Bowles held a negative stance and emphasized that if this form of assessment is embraced, it will lead to an array of negative consequences especially the significant risks of prioritizing grades over learning as well as twisting writing centre pedagogy.
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