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"The UW-Madison Writing Center launched Another Word in the fall of 2009 to give the writing center community a space to talk (write) about writing. All posts are written by members of our Writing Center staff, by alumni of our Writing Center, or by invited friends from writing centers around the world." All posts are written by members of our Writing Center staff, by alumni of our Writing Center, or by invited friends from writing centers around the world. Another Word is copyrighted by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, and does not accept advertising. You can learn more about our writing center on our website."

The Consortium on Graduate Communication is an independent community of educators who provide professional development in academic written and oral communication to (post-)graduate students before and during their master's and doctoral degrees. The purpose of the CGC is to create online and face-to-face opportunities to discuss and share resources, ideas, research, and program models for this vital segment of international higher education. CGC members are interested in ESL/multilingual students as well as those studying in their first languages, and both written and oral communication.

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.

Discussing ways to build a sense of community among staff members

discussing what to do when a faculty member "escorts" a student to the WC

a discussion of non-tutor staff members who manage center operations

discussion of how to manage faculty expectations and cope with faculty members who appear unsupportive of the writing center's work/mission update here: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=1142114

a discussion of how to promote collaboration and professionalism among staff members in conflict discussion continues: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=1822108

Created by members of the University of Maryland's Writing Center, this video instructs tutors to ask questions that prompt student thinking but direct students when they are struggling.

The members of the University of Mount Union's Writing Center created this instructional video about writing center tutorials. The video runs through a typical tutorial and could be useful for tutors and students to learn how to prepare for and what to expect from a tutorial.

Created by the members of Abilene Christian University's Writing Center, this video explains the Writing Center's purpose and its process for tutoring.

Using the university's television station, members of Bloomsburg University spotlight the Writing Center by interviewing a professor about the center's location, services, and function for students of all disciplines.

This video is a general informational video about the Writing Center at Walden University where various members of the Writing Center talk about the online tutorial process from start to finish, including sends papers to tutors and providing feedback on papers.

The SWCA website offers information about  SWCA's mission statement, conferences, institutional members, calendar of events, board, past conferences, president's blog, awards, scholarships, journal, wc resources, news, jobs, cfp's, and elections.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.  This is a very widely used site for open access materials on writing. Includes materials on research and citation, teacher and tutor resources, subject-specific writing, job search writing, ESL, MLA and APA guides, etc. 

discussing how, if at all, the WC should intervene when a faculty member expresses negative remarks about a student

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.

This video, created by members of Oakland University's Writing Center, portrays a frustrated student and a tutor's attempt to calm the student and begin the consultation. The video is not promotional or instructive, but could be used to start a conversation among tutors about how to handle a difficult student.

a discussion of policies related to tutoring one member of a group (group projects) see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=23887331