Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship / Edition 1

by Michael Pemberton

Overview

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges.

Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874215700
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	10/28/2003
Edition description:	1
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: Benchmarks in Writing Center Scholarship	1
1	The Writing Lab Newsletter as History: Tracing the Growth of a Scholarly Community	21
2	In the Spirit of Service: Making Writing Center Research a "Featured Character"	41
3	Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the "Proof" of Our Effectiveness	58
4	Separation, Initiation and Return: Tutor Training Manuals and Writing Center Lore	74
5	Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring	96
6	Breathing Lessons, or Collaboration Is	114
7	(RE) shaping the Profession: Graduate Courses in Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Administration	130
8	Administration across the Curriculum: Or Practicing What We Preach	151
9	An Ideal Writing Center: Re-Imagining Space and Design	166
10	Mentoring in Electronic Spaces: Using Resources to Sustain Relationships	177
	Notes	190
	References	197
	Index	211
	Contributors	217