Writing centers : theory and administration /

Writing centers : theory and administration / [print] edited by Gary A. Olson. - Urbana, Illinois : National Council of Teachers of English, 1984. - xiv, 247 pages ; 23 cm



Writing center theory: Peer tutoring and the ''Conversation mankind'' / Kenneth A. Bruffee -- Laboratory writing centers: Restoring authority to writers Writing center research: Testing our assumptions Philosophical perspective on writing centers and the teaching of writing Writing center and the paradoxes of written-down speech Promoting cognitive development in the writing center Priorities and guidelines for the development of writing centers: Delphi study Writing center administration: Establishing and maintaining a writing center in a two-year college Bottom line: Financial responsibility Efficiency and insecurity: Case study in form design and records management Undergraduate staffing in the writing center Developing a peer tutor program Handbook as a supplement to a tutor training program Special concerns: Problem of attitude in writing center relationships ''I would prefer not to'': Consideration of the reluctant student Derrida's ''Play'' and prewriting for the laboratory Assessing a new professional role: Writing center tutor Meeting the needs of foreign students in the writing center Selected bibliography -- Contributors. Tilly Warnock; John Warnock -- Stephen M. North -- Lil Brannon; C.H. Knoblauch -- Patrick Hartwell -- Karen I. Spear -- Bene Scanlon Cox -- Gary A. Olson -- Peggy Jolly -- C. Michael Smith -- Loretta Cobb; Elaine Kilgore Elledge -- Linda Bannister-Wills -- Jeanette Harris -- Gary A. Olson -- Mary K. Croft -- Thomas Nash -- Rodney Simard -- Bertie E. Fearing; W. Keats Sparrow --



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English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
English language--Composition and exercises.
Resource programs (Education)--Management.
Writing centers.

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