The writing center director's resource book

Introduction

pt. I: Writing centers and institutional change. 1: What writing center history can tell us about writing center practice. Time warp: historical representations of writing center directors / N. Lerner

Kairos and the writing center: modern perspectives on an ancient idea / C. Glover

Writing a sustainable history: mapping writing center ethos / S. Ferruci, S. DeRosa

The Writing Center Summer Institute: backgrounds, development, vision / P. Gillespie, B. Hughes, N. Lerner, A.E. Geller

Growing our own: writing centers as historically fertile fields for professional development / R. Wallace, S.L. Wallace

2: Managing the writing center. Designing a strategic plan for a writing center / P.B. Childers

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail": strategic planning and management for writing center directors / K. Lowe

A call for racial diversity in the writing center / M. Weaver

Managing the center: the director as coach / M. Mattison

Documentation strategies and the institutional socialization of writing centers / B. Peters

Directors at the center: relationships across campus / L. Fitzgerald, D. Stephenson

3: Responding to institutional settings/demands. The center has two faces: developing a writing center in a multicampus university setting / A.W. Martin

Open doors: the community college writing center / C. Gardner, T. Rousculp

Writing centers in the small college / B.L. Stay

Writing centers for graduate students / H. Snively, T. Freeman, C. Prentice

Tutoring in a remedial/developmental learning context / D. Paoli

Examining writing center director-assistant director relationships / K. Dvorak, B. Rafoth

There's something happening here: the writing center and core writing / A.C. DeCiccio

4: Writing centers in the administration. Managing encounters with central administration / J. Simpson

Managing up: philosophical and financial perspectives for administrative success / B.W. Speck

Administrative (chaos) theory: the politics and practices of writing center location / J. Mullin, P. Carino, J. Nelson, K. Evertz

Approaching assessment as if it matters / J. Hawthorne

pt. II: Writing centers and praxis. 1: Ethics in the writing center. Activist strategies for textual multiplicity: writing center leadership on plagiarism and authorship / R.M. Howard, T.H. Carrick

Critique or conformity?: ethics and advocacy in the writing center / M.A. Pemberton

On not "bowling alone" in the writing center, or why peer tutoring is an essential community for writers and for higher education / C. Murphy

Identifying our ethical responsibility: a criterion-based approach / D. Bringhurst

2: Tutor training in the writing center. Staffing a writing center with professional tutors / S. Strang

Using tutorial principles to train tutors: practicing our practice / M. Harris

Tutors speak: what do we want from our writing center directors? / C.P. Haviland, M. Trianosky

Crossing thresholds: starting a peer tutoring program / P. Gillespie, H. Kail

The good, the bad, the ugly of certifying a tutoring program through CRLA / B. Devet

3: Writing centers and electronic instruction. Words, images, sounds: writing centers as multiliteracy centers / D.M. Sheridan

Preserving the rhetorical nature of tutoring when going online / L.E. Bell

Implementing electronic portfolios as part of the writing center: connections, benefits, cautions, and strategies / B. Click, S. Magruder

When compassion isn't enough: providing fair and equivalent access to writing help for students with disabilities / L. Hawkes

4: Writing center case studies. Bottom up or top down: a case study of two secondary school writing centers / P.B. Childers

The writing center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: a site and story under construction / K.T. Abels

Working with faculty consultants in the writing center: three guidelines and a case history / M.A. Pemberton

Funding a writing center through a university line / E. Schreiber.