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

Berkeley Electronic Press Selected Works: "Instruction, Cognitive Scaffolding, and Motivational Scaffolding in Writing Center Tutoring" and "Questioning in Writing Center Conferences"

following the death of Tyler Clementi, important discussion of the role of the writing center in providing a safe space/space of action for LGBTQ students

discussing how to implement or increase student involvement in the hiring process

available as a .doc in the message thread

Guide to Swarthmore's Write-Ins program

Suggests that writing centers should look to Long's Reactive Behavior Patters in order to better understand writer and writing center consultant behavior.

best practices when writing centers offer peer-review workshops

best practices when writing centers offer peer-review workshops

should tutors who know a NNES student's home language work with the student in that language? discussion and resources

An overview of one learning commons, at Lyndon State College, and how the writing center fits in

"The 18 entries in this bibliography summarize select articles and dissertations that focus on the effects of mandatory writing center visits. The entries are divided into two parts: Part 1 presents summaries of studies that emphasize quantitative and qualitative data. Part 2 presents studies that rely on anecdotal evidence and theoretical arguments."

Writing centers and mandatory visits, an annotated bibliography, in the WPA-CompPile research bibliography series, July 2013

"This article explores some important insights offered by second language acquisition research, focusing in particular on the findings of interactional and Vygotskyan approaches. Finally, it argues that writing centers may be an ideal place for second language writers to work on their writing."

An Inside Higher Ed article about being in a learning commons where the Writing Center shares space with a Qualitative Learning Center.

This is a site for tutors to publish in modes and genres of their choosing. We are interested in multiliteracies and multimodal texts, but we are also interested in short-stories, poems, and essays. This link is to the new Tutors page.

"A Free Guide to Writing Your Personal Statement" includes help with brainstorming and structure, in addition to how to write a personal statement as a narrative 

This open-access book, available on the WAC Clearninghouse, can be downloaded. Authors are Brock Haussamen with Amy Benjamin, Martha Kolln, Rebecca S. Wheeler, and members of NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar. The book is described as follows: NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for Kâ€"college teachers who wonder what to do about grammar-how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught. Grammar Alive! offers teachers ways to negotiate the often conflicting goals of testing, confident writing, the culturally inclusive classroom, and the teaching of Standard English while also honoring other varieties of English. This hands-on approach to grammar in the classroom includes numerous examples and practical vignettes describing real teachers' real classroom experiences with specific grammar lessons-including ESL issues-as well as a review of grammar basics.

Excellent site to search for data on a number of topics such as student success rate, graduation, etc. You can start with a college name or topic and have the data sorted in numerous ways

This links to an index to Freshman English News journal, with a bibliography of articles in all those issues. Useful resource!

SUNY Plattsburgh's Jonathon Martinez sits down with Tom Halford to chat about writing tutoring. Martinez talks about learning to speak English fluently as a child, and he explains why he wanted to become a writing tutor.

John Martinez's "Tutoing Podcast" was published in the Fall 2014 student journal Tutors.

Kyle Bell graduated from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh in the spring of 2014. He has embarked on an accelerated B.A./M.A. TESOL from Stony Brook University. In "Multiliteracy Memes," Bell uses memes and PowerPoint to challenge common misconceptions about The Claude J. Clark Learning Center and about tutoring.