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Tom Halford on 17 Jul 15The Praxis Editorial BoardThe University of Texas at Austin Training, the theme of this issue of Praxis, is a tricky thing to pin down, and that's the way we like it.
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From Praxis: "Welcome to Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. We are a new publication devoted to the interests of writing consultants: labor issues, writing center news, training, consultant initiatives, and scholarship. Because this is a publication whose first issue's theme is "Who We Are," introductions are in order."
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Praxis Editorial BoardThe University of Texas at Austin Part of who we are as writing center practitioners is defined for us by the job titles that we're given. While the most common titles-coach, consultant, and tutor-carry their own advantages, none of them is entirely free of negative connotations.
Featured Center 1.1 - 1 views
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Praxis takes you to The Write Place at St. Cloud State
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Pedagogical Discourse(s) in the Writing Center - 0 views
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One of the recurrent questions we ask ourselves as writing center practitioners is what we're doing: basically, what our theoretical assumptions are about our work, and how they inform (or fail to inform, or even hinder) that work.
Introducing Susie: How to Create a Virtual Writing Center Tutor - Virtual - 2 views
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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.
Did You Know You're a Rhetorician? by Kristin Cole & Sue Mendelsohn - 1 views
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Kristin Cole at the University of Texas at Austin and Sue Mendelsohn at the University of Texas at Austin discuss the use of rhetoric in consulting sessions.
A DELICATE BALANCE: EMPLOYING FEMINIST PROCESS GOALS IN WRITING CENTER CONSULTING - 3 views
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Gabrielle Seeley University of Colorado at Colorado Springs From Praxis: "A writing center consultant explores strategies for empowering students writers. When I began training to work in the Writing Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), I perceived it to be an inherently feminist learning space."
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Name: Marilyn E. Little Age: A perennial 39 Writing Center: College of Lake County Writing Center Grayslake, IL (A two-year college) School enrollment: 15,828 Year in school and area of study: I earned an Associate of Arts degree in Languages in 2003. I'm currently enrolled in an ESL for teachers certificate program.
WRITING CENTER AS CONTACT ZONE: RESOURCES FOR MEDIATION - 0 views
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Jessica MurrayFlorida Atlantic University From Praxis: "When ESL writers write, they are attempting to be heard in an academic community. One of the academy's shortcomings is its disinclination to hear from writers who struggle with academic discourse. In a contact zone, such as a university that includes accomplished and novice academics, communication becomes a casualty (particularly with novices whose first language is not English)."
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A consulting article from the Praxis back issues.
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From Praxis: "Susan Mueller - A corporate assessment model offers a fresh approach to evaluating consultant training programs and consultations themselves. How many times have you watched struggling students leave your writing center and wondered how much they got out of the conference you just had with them? It is hard to know."
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Jay D Sloan - Kent State University - From Praxis: "Consultants in the Kent State University Stark Campus Writing Center enter the "contact zone" in order to help each other and the writers they work with wrestle with diversity. Like many universities, Kent State University's Stark campus has taken "embracing diversity" as one of its primary initiatives."
The View from the Other Side: From Consultant to Director - Julie Garbus, University of... - 1 views
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From Praxis: "University of Northern Colorado Writing Center Director Julie Garbus reflects on her transition from consultant to professor and administrator. My experience at the Undergraduate Writing Center (UWC) at the University of Texas at Austin definitely got me my job, a tenure-track position as assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Center at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC)."
Quizzing the Staff: Starting the Training Conversation - Sue Mendelsohn - 3 views
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From Praxis: "The notion that writing is a constantly negotiated activity with no clear-cut right or wrong answers may be a cliché among writing center professionals, but among undergraduate tutors, especially newly hired ones, it can be an earthshaking realization."
