Writing centers : theory and administration / edited by Gary A. Olson. [print]

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.

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