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discussing policy changes or different hours/offerings during last weeks of the semester

a discussion of the changing role of OWLs over the years

Twitter page for the Writing Lab Newsletter (changing, in Sept. 2015, to WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship). This page posts tweets relevant to writing centers, such as announcements, calls for conference proposals, and news of writing centers. It also follows dozens of other writing center Twitter accounts.

a discussion of how to best approach training veteran tutors when one is a new director (changing policies, new training, etc.)

University of Washington Bothell Writing and Communication Center's extensive list of ESL Instructional resources, Young-Kyung Min who wrote all the resources offers the following: "Over the last four decades, the demographics in US institutions of higher education have rapidly changed with an ever-increasing enrollment of non-native English speaking students. The enrollment of non-native English speaking students on our campus has greatly increased since its establishment. Creating a global learning environment is one of the main learning goals for our campus; thus, it is very important for faculty to continue learning about the particular needs and concerns of our non-native English speaking students and the campus resources available to assist faculty in helping students with their needs and concerns. Please continue to visit this website as more resources will be added to this section."

From Praxis: "Consultant trainers are also finding that they don't always have to look off campus to shake up their training practices. Conventional boundaries for who receives training and who offers it are also expanding. A tenet of writing center practice is that it makes consultants better teachers and better writers."

discussion of how a tutor should address plagiarism when a writer incorporates a reviewer's wording without attribution

an in-depth discussion on backlash against a director's attempts to introduce a majority-white staff to issues of racism and cultural sensitivity

a discussion of the names of writing centers see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24496387 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24705490