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"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."

"The Citation Project is a multi-institution research project responding to educators' concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing. Although much has been written on this topic and many have expressed concerns, little empirical data is available to describe what students are actually doing with their sources. At present, therefore, educators must make policy decisions and pedagogy based on anecdote, personal observation, media reports, and the claims of corporations that sell "solutions." The Citation Project begins the process of providing descriptive data. Our research team systematically studies randomly selected, source-based student papers from a range of different institutions. Our purpose is to describe how student writers use the sources they cite in their papers. With this information, educators will be able to make informed decisions about best practices for formulating plagiarism policies and for teaching rhetorically effective and ethically responsible methods of writing from sources. Preventing plagiarism is a desired outcome of our research, as the subtitle above indicates, but the Citation Project research suggests that students' knowing how to understand and synthesize complex, lengthy sources is essential to effective plagiarism prevention. If instructors know how shallowly students are engaging with their research source-and that is what the Citation Project research reveals-then they know what responsible pedagogy needs to address."

book announcement, report on grammar workbooks, report on faculty outreach; "Questions Which Need Answers," a questionnaire for directors covering scope of writing labs, staff, problems, materials, financing, details of operation, evaluation; mailing list

"This website supports a presentation on the implications of big data on writing center studies for the 2014 IWCA/NCPTW conference in Orlando, Florida. Its aim is to use newly available big-data sets about global development and education to provoke new questions about the impacts of writing center work."

"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."

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.

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers. 10-minute episodes on writing process and concerns such as thesis, audience, paragraphs.

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers is a monthly podcast on academic writing produced by the Walden University Writing Center.

Allie Squires's "How to Get Off Topic and Still Save Your Essay in One Tutoring Session or Less" was published in the Fall 2014 issue of the student journal Tutors.

crowdsourcing a list of tips on getting the most out of a writing center visit

crowdsourcing resources on place

references and annotations "focused on race/racism, antiracism, and racial justice"

crowdsourcing info on computer use during in-person tutoring

discussion of scholarship related to marginalia (i.e. tutors writing on student papers); also covers policies re: marginalia

crowdsourcing a list of articles on a wide range of disabilities

discussion of swearing policies; also includes policies on pay rates for tutors (from 2008)

Promo video and a few short videos on grammar, produced by students at the Texas A&M University Writing Center

Chloe Diepenbrock's :Introducing Susie: How to create a virtual Writing Center tutor," discusses virtual tutoring. Susie is the virtual tutor on the website for the Writing Center at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

The blog of the Miller Writing Center at Auburn University. includes entries about the tutors and advice on writing

Auburn University's writing center blog