Writing Center Readings

Part of our development as writing consultants (or tutors) entails continuously engaging with writing center literature. On this page you’ll find readings related to Writing Center best practices.

WILLIAMS_tutoring_revision_second_language_WC

ZIMMERELLI_place_to_begin_service-learning_writing_center_justice

WATERS_peer_tutoring

TARDY_enacting_transforming_local_language_policies

SEVERINO_PRIM_second_language_writing_development_frequent_flyer

SEVERINO_PRIM_word_choice_errors_in_Chinese_writing_center

THOMPSON_et_al_examining_our_lore_survey_use_conferences

SOCOLOFSKY_how_to_write_science_research_papers

SULLIVAN_et_al_college_writing_china_conversation

SEVERINO_et_al_online_feedback_native_nonnative

SEVERINO_DEIFELL_empowering_L2_tutoring_a_case_vocabulary_learning

SALEM_opportunity_and_transformation_WC_political_landscape

SALEM_decisions_decisions_who_chooses_WC

OKAWA_et_al_multi-cultural_voices_peer_tutoring

RAYMOND_QUINN_what_a_writer_wants_assessing_student_goals_tutoring_sessions

RUECKER_here _they_do_this_there_they_do_that_LATINOS

RYAN_KANE_evaluating_the_effectiveness_WC_visits

NEDERHEISER_WOLFE_between_technological_endorsements_online_WC

NAN_recurring_ELL_chinese_students

NAKAMURU_theory_in_to_practice_two_multilingual_writers

MAO_rhetorical_borderlands_chinese_rhetoric

MACKIEWICZ_THOMPSON_motivational_scaffolding_politeness_tutoring

LU_work_composition_composing_english_capitalism

HORNER_et_al_toward_multilingual_composition_scholarship

HAWKINS_intimacy_audience_relationship_revision_social_dimension_peer

CARINO_review_the_idea_of_writing_center

ERVIN_what_tutor_researchers_tell_about_undergraduate_research

FRAIBURG_Composition_2.0_Multilingual_Multimodal_Framework

GARCIA_unmaking_gringo_centers

GRIMM_rearticulating_work_writing_center

HARRIS_collaboration_is_not_collaboration_is_not_collaboration

HARRIS_talking_the_middle_why_writers_need_writing_tutors

HASSAL_GIORDANO_occupy_writing_studies_teaching

CANAGARAJAH_place_englishes_composition_pluralization_continued

BRUFFEE_two_related_issues_peer_tutoring_tutor_training

BRUCH_MARBACK_race_literacy_rhetoric_composition_studies

BROWN_representing_audiences_WC_discourse_analysis

BRENDEL_tutoring_between_language_comparative_multilingual_tutoring

BLAZER_twenty-first_century_writing_center_staff_education

BOQUET_LEARNER_after_idea_writing_center_peer_tutoring