TY - BOOK AU - Olson,Gary A. AU - TI - Writing centers: theory and administration SN - 9780814158784 AV - PE1404.O52.W758 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - Urbana, Illinois PB - National Council of Teachers of English KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Study and teaching KW - Composition and exercises KW - Resource programs (Education) KW - Management KW - Writing centers N1 - 1 (pages 229-243); Writing center theory: Peer tutoring and the ''Conversation mankind'' / Kenneth A. Bruffee --; Laboratory writing centers: Restoring authority to writers; Tilly Warnock; John Warnock --; Writing center research: Testing our assumptions; Stephen M. North --; Philosophical perspective on writing centers and the teaching of writing; Lil Brannon; C.H. Knoblauch --; Writing center and the paradoxes of written-down speech; Patrick Hartwell --; Promoting cognitive development in the writing center; Karen I. Spear --; Priorities and guidelines for the development of writing centers: Delphi study; Bene Scanlon Cox --; Writing center administration: Establishing and maintaining a writing center in a two-year college; Gary A. Olson --; Bottom line: Financial responsibility; Peggy Jolly --; Efficiency and insecurity: Case study in form design and records management; C. Michael Smith --; Undergraduate staffing in the writing center; Loretta Cobb; Elaine Kilgore Elledge --; Developing a peer tutor program; Linda Bannister-Wills --; Handbook as a supplement to a tutor training program; Jeanette Harris --; Special concerns: Problem of attitude in writing center relationships; Gary A. Olson --; ''I would prefer not to'': Consideration of the reluctant student; Mary K. Croft --; Derrida's ''Play'' and prewriting for the laboratory; Thomas Nash --; Assessing a new professional role: Writing center tutor; Rodney Simard --; Meeting the needs of foreign students in the writing center; Bertie E. Fearing; W. Keats Sparrow --; Selected bibliography --; Contributors; 2; Also issued online ER -