Illustrates how Writing Centers have moved out of institutional margins and into the mainstream of secondary and postsecondary education through partnerships with Writing Across the Curriculum Programs.
Introduction by Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S Blumner
The WAC/Writing Center Partnership: Creating a Campus-wide Writing
Environment by Robert W. Barnett and Lois M. Rosen
The Writing Center as Ambassador Plenipotentiary in a Developing
WAC Program by Scott Johnston and Bruce W. Speck
Authority and Initiation: Preparing Students for
Discipline-specific Language Conventions by Jacob S Blumner
Neither Missionaries Nor Colonists Nor Handmaidens: What Writing
Tutors Can Teach WAC Faculty about Inquiry by Carol Peterson
Haviland, Sherry Green, Barbara Kime Shields, and M. Todd
Harper
Out of the Sea and Onto the Shoals, Or, When WAC Writing Center
Directors Meet Neurotic Pride by Mark L. Waldo
When a Writing Center Undertakes a Writing Fellows Program by
Richard Leahy
A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De FactoWAC
Center/Writing Center by Muriel Harris
Writing Centers as WAC Centers: An Evolving Model by Peshe C.
Kuriloff
Situating Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum
Programs in the Academy: Creating Partnerships for Change with
Organizational Development Theory by Karen Vaught-Alexander
Creating a Virtual Space: The Role of the Web in Forging Writing
Center/WAC Connections by Irene L. Clark
Writing Centers/WAC in Pharmacy Education: A Changing Prescription
by Eric Hobson and Neal Lerner
Writing Center or Experimental Center for Faculty Research,
Discovery, and Risk Taking? by Pamela B. Childers
Writing Centers and WAC Programs as Infostructures: Relocating
Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change by Christina
Murphy and Joe Law
Selected Bibliography
Index
ROBERT W. BARNETT is Assistant Professor of Composition and
Rhetoric at the University of Michigan-Flint. He also directs the
University Writing Center and co-directs the Writing Across the
Curriculum Program. He currently serves as Chair of the Michigan
Writing Centers Association and has published articles in such
journals as The Writing Center Journal, The Writing Lab Newsletter,
The Language Arts Journal of Michigan, and Exercise Exchange: A
Journal for Writing Teachers.
JACOB S BLUMNER is Assistant Professor of the University of
Michigan—Flint, where he coordinates Writing Across the Curriculum
efforts and teaches composition. He also serves on the East Central
Writing Centers Association Executive Board, and his work has
appeared in Writing Center Perspectives and Alternatives to Grading
Student Writing.
.,."well written and well-researched collection....By the time I
reached the end, I was convinced that collaboration serves the
interests of both writing centers and WAC programs and was almost
persuaded that perhaps the goal should be integration. Certainly,
anyone contemplating this type of program collaboration would do
well to use this book as a resource."-College English
?...well written and well-researched collection....By the time I
reached the end, I was convinced that collaboration serves the
interests of both writing centers and WAC programs and was almost
persuaded that perhaps the goal should be integration. Certainly,
anyone contemplating this type of program collaboration would do
well to use this book as a resource.?-College English
..."well written and well-researched collection....By the time I
reached the end, I was convinced that collaboration serves the
interests of both writing centers and WAC programs and was almost
persuaded that perhaps the goal should be integration. Certainly,
anyone contemplating this type of program collaboration would do
well to use this book as a resource."-College English
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