{"product_id":"the-writing-center-directors-resource-book-9780805856088","title":"The Writing Center Directors Resource Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Writing Center Director's Resource Book\u003c\/i\u003e has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center professionals may experience. This blend of theory with actual practice provides a multi-dimensional view of writing center work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the end, this book serves not only as a resource but also as a guide to future directions for the writing center, which will continue to evolve in response to a myriad of new challenges that will lie ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003ePreface. Introduction. \u003cb\u003ePart I: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Centers and Institutional Change.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Writing Center History Can Tell Us About Writing Center Practice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eN. Lerner,\u003c\/b\u003e Time Warp: Historical Representations of Writing Center Directors. \u003cb\u003eC. Glover,\u003c\/b\u003e Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea. \u003cb\u003eS. Ferruci, S. DeRosa,\u003c\/b\u003e Writing a Sustainable History: Mapping Writing Center Ethos. \u003cb\u003eP. Gillespie, B. Hughes, N. Lerner, A.E. Geller,\u003c\/b\u003e The Writing Center Summer Institute: Backgrounds, Development, Vision. \u003cb\u003eR. Wallace, S.L. Wallace,\u003c\/b\u003e Growing Our Own: Writing Centers as Historically Fertile Fields for Professional Development. \u003cb\u003eSection II: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eManaging the Writing Center.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eP.B. Childers,\u003c\/b\u003e Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center. \u003cb\u003eK. Lowe,\u003c\/b\u003e \"If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail\": Strategic Planning and Management for Writing Center Directors. \u003cb\u003eM. Weaver,\u003c\/b\u003e A Call for Racial Diversity in the Writing Center. \u003cb\u003eM. Mattison,\u003c\/b\u003e Managing the Center: The Director as Coach. \u003cb\u003eB. Peters,\u003c\/b\u003e Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers. \u003cb\u003eL. Fitzgerald,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Stephenson, \u003c\/b\u003eDirectors at the Center: Relationships Across Campus. \u003cb\u003eSection III: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eResponding to Institutional Settings\/Demands.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.W. Martin,\u003c\/b\u003e The Center Has Two Faces: Developing a Writing Center in a Multicampus University Setting. \u003cb\u003eC. Gardner, T. Rousculp,\u003c\/b\u003e Open Doors: The Community College Writing Center. \u003cb\u003eB.L. Stay,\u003c\/b\u003e Writing Centers in the Small College. \u003cb\u003eH. Snively, T. Freeman, C. Prentice,\u003c\/b\u003e Writing Centers for Graduate Students. \u003cb\u003eD. Paoli,\u003c\/b\u003e Tutoring in a Remedial\/Developmental Learning Context. \u003cb\u003eK. Dvorak, B. Rafoth,\u003c\/b\u003e Examining Writing Center Director-Assistant Director Relationships. \u003cb\u003eA.C. DeCiccio,\u003c\/b\u003e There's Something Happening Here: The Writing Center and Core Writing. \u003cb\u003eSection IV: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Centers in the Administration.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Simpson,\u003c\/b\u003e Managing Encounters With Central Administration. \u003cb\u003eB.W. Speck,\u003c\/b\u003e Managing Up: Philosophical and Financial Perspectives for Administrative Success. \u003cb\u003eJ. Mullin, P. Carino, J. Nelson, K. Evertz,\u003c\/b\u003e Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location. \u003cb\u003eJ. Hawthorne,\u003c\/b\u003e Approaching Assessment as if It Matters. \u003cb\u003ePart II: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Centers and Praxis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthics in the Writing Center.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eR.M. Howard, T.H. Carrick,\u003c\/b\u003e Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship. \u003cb\u003eM.A. Pemberton,\u003c\/b\u003e Critique or Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center. \u003cb\u003eC. Murphy,\u003c\/b\u003e On Not \"Bowling Alone\" in the Writing Center, or Why Peer Tutoring Is an Essential Community for Writers and for Higher Education. \u003cb\u003eD. Bringhurst,\u003c\/b\u003e Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach. \u003cb\u003eSection II: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTutor Training in the Writing Center.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. Strang,\u003c\/b\u003e Staffing a Writing Center With Professional Tutors. \u003cb\u003eM. Harris,\u003c\/b\u003e Using Tutorial Principles to Train Tutors: Practicing Our Praxis. \u003cb\u003eC.P. Haviland, M. Trianosky,\u003c\/b\u003e Tutors Speak: What Do We Want From Our Writing Center Directors? \u003cb\u003eP. Gillespie, H. Kail,\u003c\/b\u003e Crossing Thresholds: Starting a Peer Tutoring Program. \u003cb\u003eB. Devet,\u003c\/b\u003e The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of Certifying a Tutoring Program Through CRLA. \u003cb\u003eSection III: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Centers and Electronic Instruction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eD.M. Sheridan,\u003c\/b\u003e Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers. \u003cb\u003eL.E. Bell,\u003c\/b\u003e Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online. \u003cb\u003eB. Click, S. Magruder,\u003c\/b\u003e Implementing Electronic Portfolios as Part of the Writing Center: Connections, Benefits, Cautions, and Strategies. \u003cb\u003eL. Hawkes,\u003c\/b\u003e When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students With Disabilities. \u003cb\u003eSection IV: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Center Case Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eP.B. 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