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 
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<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814158784 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>84016518 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.<br/>English language--Composition and exercises.<br/>Resource programs (Education)--Management.<br/>Writing centers.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1404.O52.W758 1984 PE1404