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a collection of mission statements see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=2105485 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24556440

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.

discussing strategies beyond orientation, class visits, or letters

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

This video gives a general overview of the Writing Center at Frankfurt International School mission what assignments the tutors work with, how to make an appointment with the Writing Center, and what resources the Writing Center offers.

a discussion of grammar software usage

a helpful discussion that defines and explains goals and outcomes (for assessment, SLOs, strategic plans, etc.) see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=18981151

Video on the Brigham Young Writing Center website, introducing students to what the Writing Center offers.

discussing how to manage student expectations of writing center services

This video promotes Western Illinois University's Writing Center by demonstrating that the Writing Center is a place where tutors collaborate with students to teach them about writing.

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] "