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When the time comes, register as a member of the organization and attend the conference. Perhaps you may wish to run for office or participate in elections. While many scholars have been expressing the need for more recognition for creative writing studies for some time, the field is still young and the organization is brand new.

The second issue of tutors includes fiction, poetry, memes, and an Instagram page about tutoring and tutors.

CCCC's position statement on assessment, revised in November 2014

Article in NCTE's Forum by Nicole Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Rebecca Jackson, "A Glimpse into the Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors." pp. A3-7. This issue of Forum focuses on "Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty." Vol. 18.1 (Fall 2014). Access on the NCTE site is limited to NCTE members, but readers may have access through institutional libraries with databases of online publications. Article focuses on who does the work of directing and what work do new directors perform.

Talk given at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, 9/11/2015

A listing of Writing Centers in Kuwait.

"I was finishing up a paper on Athanasius Kircher for my history of science class when I decided to run it by two of my housemates. When one of them read it, she flagged the following sentence. Kircher went on to publish over thirty works on subjects ranging from hieroglyphics to magnetism."

Via CompPile: "This review-essay of Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch's Virtual Peer Review: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Online Environments focuses on virtual peer review (VPR) and its place in composition pedagogy. Breuch's two main points of interest are what is gained by immersing students in online learning, and what could the composition community lose during the transition. In six chapters, Breuch discusses these ideas respectively: 1) how to distinguish the differences between VPR and face-to-face peer review through the use of remediation, specifically with reference to three characteristics of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC): time, space and interaction; 2) how these dimensions play out in virtual communication and instruction; 3) a more focused analysis of the 'tension' that arises when peer review is placed in the virtual world; 4) the challenges of the ownership of ideas in VPR; 5) other concerns raised about VPR; and 6) how VP can be used in the classroom and other writing contexts, the university Writing Center being one example. [Jennifer Maness] "

crowdsourcing a reading list for new directors

a discussion of options for staff uniforms (shirts, name tags, smocks, etc.) see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24530560

Cedarville's writing center offers tutoring guides to papers in specific disciplines: lab reports in engineering, legal briefs, literary analysis, marketing, criminal justice, and many other fields.

From Praxis: "The warm glow of a computer screen can never replace face-to-face training courses, workshops, or advice from colleagues. But electronic training resources can be engaging supplements; they give us perspectives from outside the walls of our own centers, and they let us move at our own pace through training activities."