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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Writing center"”.
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Exploring Basic Writers' Perceptions of Writing Center Use
… at the University of Southern Indiana's writing center by students in the two pre-core curriculum basic writing classes, this study explored the basic writing students' reasons for not attending the writing center. Since their attitudes toward writing and collaboration as well as some of …
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Understanding the Role of Resources in Writing Center Tutoring Sessions
This research examines the use of writing resources in tutoring sessions, which is considered one of the valued tutoring practices at the University Writing Center (UWC) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This research explains the methodology and presents the findings of a study that …
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Writing Center Outreach: What it is and Why it Matters
Christine B. Ghattas argues that writing centers need to enact outreach programs that show faculty and students what goes on in writing centers and the ways writing centers benefit from the university community. She presents a description of the current situation of writing centers, an explanation …
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Reporting, assessment and accountability : a genre study of writing center reports
Broadly, this dissertation is an investigation of writing center reporting practices. Using Rhetorical Genres Studies, I surveyed writing center administrators and examined twelve writing center reports to understand the reports' social action, or what reports accomplished for their users and …
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Facilitating the transfer of writing knowledge among university writing center consultants.
… study of 26 graduate and undergraduate writing consultants at the Baylor University Writing Center (UWC), this dissertation addresses the ways in which consultants draw on prior writing knowledge when facing unfamiliarity in tutoring sessions. It further explores how rhetorical and …
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Doing the work of the "woke" : writing center tutoring and social justice
… to empirical research on social justice in writing centers. A mixed methods approach, involving a survey and a case study, was used to better understand the nature of tutors’ critical consciousness and its contribution to social justice in writing center tutoring. Findings indicate that …
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Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center
… and institutional mission is the college writing center at YU's women's campus, Stern College for Women. This study defines rhetorical education as the way an institution authorizes written, spoken, and behavioral communication, with the goal of developing its students as civic beings, …
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CONVERSATIONS ON COLLABORATION: GRADUATE STUDENTS AS WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS IN THE WRITING CENTER
… approach whether and how collaboration occurs in writing center administration. The reflections and perceptions of former writing center gWPAs provided insight into a variety of institutional contexts and experiences present in writing center collaboration. The participants perceived themselves as …
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The role of the writing center in the writing practices of L2 students
Writing centers are gradually becoming more and more visible on college campuses. This greater visibility is often seen, administratively, as a solution to the language problems posed by a growing population of students for whom English is a second or other language (L2). L2 students are increasing …
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Primary materials and historical narratives : a case study of the Ball State Writing Center
As writing center scholarship has continued to expand both in focus and scope, more writing centers have begun to examine their local histories, and in doing so are starting to ask questions about their origins. However, there still remains a distinct lack of longitudinal research in writing center …
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Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments
… recent scholarship pertaining to socially just writing assessments by making connections among assemblage theory and materialism, studies of ecological and anti-racist assessments, and studies of writing center work, to ground theoretical conversations in everyday practices. Focusing on systemic …
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I'LL TALK, YOU LISTEN: WRITING CENTER TUTORS READING ALOUD IN SESSIONS WITH L2 TUTEES
<p>Writing center tutors work in a field with a long tradition of fostering meaningful interaction between tutor and tutee. However, as university demographics change and more and more international students and second language users utilize writing centers, our long-held notions of meaningful …
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How Participation in a Peer-Led Writing Center Impacts Struggling Students’ Self-Efficacy and Motivation
<p>Many secondary students struggle with writing, both in terms of skill and confidence. This qualitative case study follows six students who have a history of struggling in English Language Arts class as they undergo a tutoring intervention based on the writing center model of peer tutoring. …
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From dorm room to class room: Writing program and writing center partnerships with residence halls
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