Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice

by Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, Elizabeth H. Boquet

Overview

In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. They push themselves and their field toward deeper, more significant research, more self-conscious teaching.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874216622
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments 1Introduction 2Trickster at Your Table 3Beat (Not) the (Poor) Clock 4Origami Anyone? Tutors as Learners 5Straighten Up and Fly Right: Writers as Tutors, Tutors as Writers 6Everyday Racism: Anti-Racism Work and Writing Center Practice 7Everyday Administration, or Are We Having Fun Yet? Notes References Index About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

The sophistication of its theoretical positions and the range of sources on which the authors draw position it on the vanguard of the field’s scholarship. 

Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton

What impresses me most about their argument is not that writing centers need to stop being so rigid and time-bound and apolitical, but that writing centers occupy a unique space in the academy—one that might encourage authentic communities of learners, writers, peer tutors, faculty and staff. The Everyday Writing Center provides a way to think about this ambition.

Harvey Kail

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