WcORD: The WLN Writing Center Online Resource Database

several websites with handouts and resources

handouts on writing, citation, style, LOCs, contexts and disciplines

what's offered, how copied resources are credited, online vs. print, etc.

discussing the number of work spaces available in a center

discussing in-demand workshop topics see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=18674141 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=18677152 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=19869331 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24503347

working with students who don't know composition vocabulary/terminology

discusses oldest continuously operating WCs in the United States

discussing tools that help students assess their own skills and needs

From Neal Lerner's July 2011 message to WCenter: Folks, the latest issue (July 2011) of the Journal of Writing Research includes a very impressive study by James Williams and Seiji Takaku of the relationship between college students' self-efficacy, help-seeking behaviors, writing center visits, and writing performance. Here's a link to a pdf of the study: http://www.jowr.org/articles/vol3_1/JoWR_2011_vol3_nr1_Williams_Takaku.pdf Here's a snippet to take to your dean: "The analysis showed that those students who frequently obtained writing center tutoring received higher grades in composition than those who did not, regardless of their ESL or native-English-speaker status. The frequency of writing center tutoring seemed to be especially valuable for the ESL students, who outperform their domestic cohorts, receiving significantly higher grades in composition."

archives of the Journal of Writing Research; open access articles available as PDFs

discussing pros and cons of rotating a directorship through writing program faculty