All this year as I’ve been building up and revising our center’s website resources, I have been looking across the web at other centers’ sites for models.
Here are some observations.
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WAC and Writing Centers: Free DVD
Posted in WAC, administrators on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you interested in ways writing centers can facilitate faculty development, enhancing writing pedagogy in many disciplines?
Keene State College’s Center for Writing Director, Phyllis Benay, brought a number of Shaped By Writing, Too DVDs to the Burlington conference to distribute. The stack was gone by Saturday afternoon, but if you’d like a free copy, follow the [...]
SIG report: WC Assessment & Research
Posted in NEWCA Conference, administrators, assessment, research on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Michelle Deal and Collie Fulford combined SIGs and hosted conversation across two sessions that explored the intersections of WC assessment and research. In attendance were our conference host, Sue Dinitz of University of Vermont, and Tom Denton of SUNY Dutchess Community College; we were joined by Nichole Bennett-Bealer of SUNY Plattsburgh, Sarah Blazer & Carolyn [...]
NEWCA “WC Administration” SIG (Sunday, 13 April 2008)
Posted in NEWCA Conference, administrators on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pat Morelli (U Hartford) and Jennifer Jefferson (Endicott College), co-facilitators
As part of NEWCA’s first (and successful!) experimentation with Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on the last day of the conference, the SIG on WC Administration began its informal conversation with Pat tossing out a few talking points that are of interest to her – and because [...]
Tutoring the tutors
Posted in administrators, tutor support, workplace writing on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working with a dynamite group of tutors at Keene State. They give so much to other writers. But I’ve noticed they’re less familiar with professional writing genres than they are the academic ones that comprise their daily fodder. That’s probably true for many college students. And because good writing strategies don’t necessarily transfer [...]
