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Writing Center Director's Resource Book

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ISBN-10: 0805856080

ISBN-13: 9780805856088

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christina Murphy, Byron L. Stay, Kim Abels, Lisa Eastmond Bell, David A. Bringhurst

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The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center…    
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Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.92" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

CHRISTINA MURPHY is Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of English at The William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her books include "Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography" (Greenwood, 1996), "Landmark Essays on Writing Centers" (1995), "The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors" (1995), "Writing Center Perspectives" (1995), "Critical Thinking Skills Journal" (1995), and "Ann Beattie" (1986).

Linda Angel is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has also been in the field of education for 35 years as a teacher, counselor, and assistant principal. A native of Milwaukee, she is a long-time resident of Southern California. Linda was inspired to write this book because of her confusing and often painful dating experiences after the sudden death of her husband. Nevertheless, she did find love again when she met Robert. They were married on Valentine's Day in Kona, Hawaii. She is also the proud mother to Jeremy and Nick Stupin. Linda lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and their three Scottish terriers in an historic Victorian home.

Preface
Introduction
Writing Centers and Institutional Change
What Writing Center History Can Tell Us about Writing Center Practice
Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors
Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea
Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos
The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds, Development, Vision
Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development
Managing the Writing Center
Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center
"If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail": Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors
A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center
Managing the Center: The Director as Coach
Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers
Directors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus
Responding to Institutional Settings/Demands
The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting
Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center
Writing Centers in the Small College
Writing Centers for Graduate Students
Tutoring in a Remedial/Developmental Learning Context
Examining Writing Center Director-Assistant Director Relationships
There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing
Writing Centers and the Administration
Managing Encounters With Central Administration
Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success
Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location
Approaching Assessment as if It Matters
Writing Centers and Praxis
Ethics in the Writing Center
Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship
Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center
On Not "Bowling Alone" in the Writing Center, or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education
Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach
Tutor Training in the Writing Center
Staffing a Writing Center with Professional Tutors
Using Tutorial Principles to Train Tutors: Practicing Our Praxis
Tutors Speak: What Do We Want from Our Writing Center Directors?
Crossing Thresholds: Starting a Peer Tutoring Program
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of Certifying a Tutoring Program Through CRLA
Writing Centers and Electronic Instruction
Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers
Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online
Implementing Electronic Portfolios as Part of the Writing Center: Connections, Benefits, Cautions, and Strategies
When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students with Disabilities
Writing Center Case Studies
Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: A Site and Story Under Construction
Working with Faculty Consultants in the Writing Center: Three Guidelines and a Case History
Funding a Writing Center through a University Line
Contributor Bios
Author Index
Subject Index