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September 2024 Newsletter
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Hello Writing Center friends!
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Thanks for subscribing to the WLN Blog newsletter! Here’s the latest digest of posts from the WLN blog.
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We’ll be back in late October. Between now and then, if you’ve got a writing center issue you would like to write about on the blog or wish we could discuss, email wlnblog.editors@gmail.com.
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Also, we're looking for a new production editor! Applications are due by October 27th. Please check the full call for details and how to apply.
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Anna Habib, Esther Namubiru, & Weijia Li
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The Writing Center at the American University of Kuwait: the first writing center in the Gulf
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When Individuality Becomes One’s Path A university student’s first experience in academic writing often begins with having numerous ideas, underdeveloped paragraphs, and a sense of confusion about how everything fits in. However, this signals the first step into exploring and articulating their individuality. This is where the Writing Center (WRC) in the American University of Kuwait (AUK) plays a guiding role, helping …
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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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Rewriting the Rules: Writing Center Tutors, Ethics, and AI in Student Writing
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📄 Read the full article in Contemporary Educational Technology In the fall of 2022, peer tutors at the American University of Sharjah Writing Center began raising a new set of questions: “Can I help a student revise something if ChatGPT wrote it?” “What if the student doesn’t say they used AI, but I suspect they did?” “What do I do when a …
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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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Three Cs of a Writing Center: Creativity, Collaboration, and Competence
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By: Svetlana Suchkova My way to academic writing in English started with the letter “C” – challenge. When I was an early-career researcher, I got a rejection for my first publication in English. It helped me realize that writing conventions in English differ much from those in my mother tongue, Russian. The failure encouraged me to explore the area of …
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