Group items tagged

From ABSTRACT: "For teaching practices in the Writing Center, the findings raise questions about how writing center pedagogy can empower L2 writers on their language control when the writing consultants have the ultimate control in language and the L2 learners have the inherent uncertainty. While writing center work draws on the advantages of collaborative dialogues and effects better language control for ESL writers based on a sociocultural learning perspective, writing center pedagogy needs to continue reconsidering the needs and beliefs of ESL writers (Blau & Hall, 2002; Powers, 1993). The language issue in ESL writing is not a lower order concern in the writing, but more likely a primary concern for the writer. As also found in this study, when the broader contextual factors such as the focus of writing and writers' beliefs are taken into account, language knowledge and control are not just about linguistic correctness to ESL writer development. In striving to create better writers but not just better writing for any writers, it is crucial for writing centers to continue rethinking their staff training on the topic of language issues with their diverse multilingual clientele who speaks English as a second language."

The University of Louisville Writing Center "Writing FAQs" website, with lists of questions about general writing, before beginning, drafting and revision, editing, citation, plagiarism, frequent questions for graduate students, and other relevant questions, with links to lengthy answers.

Saint Mary's University Writing Center blog has posts about tutoring, such as this one about asking questions as tutoring tools. 

UNC Charlotte Writing Resource Center's blog, Entries about writing, grammar tips, answers to questions, etc. 

"This website supports a presentation on the implications of big data on writing center studies for the 2014 IWCA/NCPTW conference in Orlando, Florida. Its aim is to use newly available big-data sets about global development and education to provoke new questions about the impacts of writing center work."

Suggests questions to consider when thinking about what data to collect. Is not specifically for writing centers, but can be helpful

One of the recurrent questions we ask ourselves as writing center practitioners is what we're doing: basically, what our theoretical assumptions are about our work, and how they inform (or fail to inform, or even hinder) that work.