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The politics of writing centers

Print Book, English, ©2001
Boynton/Cook Publishers-Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, ©2001
xvii, 151 pages ; 23 cm.
9780867095692, 0867095695
46383914
Writing centers and writing programs: local and communal politics / Peter Carino
What's in a name? / Pat McQueeney
Fill 'er up, pass the band-aids, center the margin, and praise the Lord: mixing metaphors in the writing lab / Katherine M. Fischer and Muriel Harris
Peer tutoring: keeping the contradiction productive / Jane Cogie
Graduate students in the writing center: confronting the cult of (non)expertise / Carrie Shively Leverenz
Labor pains: a political analysis of writing center tutoring / Linda K. Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns
Sites for (invisible) intellectual work / Margaret J. Marshall
The politics of administrative and physical location / Carol Peterson Haviland, Carmen M. Fye, and Richard Colby
Political issues in secondary school writing centers / Pamela B. Childers and James K. Upton
An audit of the National Writing Centers Association's growth / Eric Hobson and Kelly Lowe. Lining up ducks or herding cats?: the politics of writing center accreditation / Jeanne H. Simpson and Barry M. Maid
The disappearing writing center within the disappearing academy: the challenges and consequences of outsourcing in the twenty-first century / Christina Murphy and Joe Law