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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"writing centers"”.
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The Impact of Social Construction on Writing Centers
Language and instruction.
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Writing centers professionalize: Visions and versions of legitimacy
… the ambiguities of professionalization for writing centers and presents an alternative way to approach what I believe is an inevitable process. Toward that end, my project is to examine how the discourse surrounding the professionalization of writing centers constructs scholars, tutors, …
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Assessing the Impact of Writing Centers on Student Writing
This study assesses the influence of writing center tutorials on student writing and presents tutoring best practices. Writing center scholars have emphasized the need for evidence-based studies to understand how one-on-one tutorials influence student writing practices. After examining twenty …
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Stories About Writing (Centers): Sites of Innovation in (Online) Writing Instruction
… dissertation I study the University of Houston Writing Center (UHWC) as a site for innovative writing instruction while simultaneously critiquing business-model approaches to the teaching of writing. Using the Writing Center as a microcosm for the larger issues affecting writing pedagogy, I …
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Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
… and time-intensive needs that directors of writing centers are called to address. As technological advancements have been made, those needs have continued to grow into online areas as well. The Writing Center at the University of Missouri, one of the longest running and earliest adopters of …
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The application of stasis theory to the role of peer tutoring in writing centers
… -- Peer dialoguing skills -- Peer composition or writing skills -- Critical points of argumentation.
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The application of stasis theory to the role of peer tutoring in writing centers
… -- Peer dialoguing skills -- Peer composition or writing skills -- Critical points of argumentation.
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Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors in the 21st Century: Investigating Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice
… in college curricula across the nation affects Writing Center theory and practice. The project acknowledges that universities are beginning to recognize and adapt definitions of literacy that argue for 21st century individuals to be able to adapt, critique, and ultimately create a variety of …
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Seeking the center frame: A case study of leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
… leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
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Computer Technology in Writing Centers: Ways to Increase Their Effectiveness in the Instruction of Freshman English and Intercurricular Studies
… with a variety of aspects — the history of the Writing Center, its functions, perceptions of it, pedagogies related to it, and its space, and our goals, for example ~ before we simply sit our freshman in front of computers and give them a writing prompt. Chapter One will provide a brief history …
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An Examination of the Metaphorical Structure of Writing Centers: One Metaphor to Bring Them All to Understanding and Define Them
… metaphors that have been used to describe writing centers over the last thirty to fifty years, I classify these metaphors into three distinct categories. Based on the assertion that metaphors can help to create and define perception, many writing center scholars have used metaphor to …
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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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A Study of Writing within Discipline-Specific Writing Support Centers: Expanding our Definitions
This dissertation explores discipline-specific writing support spaces in an attempt to better understand disciplinary writing from various perspectives. Neal Lerner suggests that writing center scholarship would benefit from interdisciplinary work; therefore, I investigate spaces that are uniquely …
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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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Implementing literature-based curriculum in primary grades
Literature-based reading instruction -- Writing centers -- Library corners.
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Implementing literature-based curriculum in primary grades
Literature-based reading instruction -- Writing centers -- Library corners.
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All Writers Welcome: An Exploratory Study of the Potential Value of Academic Writing Center and Adult Community-Based Literacy Center Partnerships
<p>Writing center practices have been widely accepted as beneficial for literacy development, especially given the ubiquitous nature of writing. However, many off-campus communities lack writing support as visible, organized, and well-documented as that available to those on-campus through writing …
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Assessing the Feasibility of Online Writing Support for Technical Writing Students
… unites two seemingly unrelated fields, writing centers and technical writing, to study the feasibility of creating an online technical writing resource. Despite prolonged attention to multiliteracies and collaboration in both subfields, writing centers and technical writing do not …
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