Conferences & Institutes

CFP: 2012 IWCA Conference in San Diego (Deadline: May 14, 2012)

2012 International Writing Centers Association Conference Theme Lines in the Sand: How Writing Centers Draw and Redraw Boundaries Date October  25-27, 2012 Location San Diego Conference Chair Shareen ...

NCPTW 2012, Chicago, IL (November 2-4, 2012)

The proposal process for the 2012 NCPTW conference is closed. Check http://condor.depaul.edu/writing/ncptw2012/index.html for conference details. The 2012 National Conference on Peer ...

2012 IWCA Summer Institute

It's Time to Make Your Plans to Attend the IWCA Writing Center Summer Institute Imagine five days of stimulating discussions with ...

2012 Flock of OWLS Virtual Conference

2012 Call for Proposals Flock of OWLS Conference: A Non-Parliamentary Collaboration Wednesday 18 July 2012 OUR MISSION: We are an association ...

2011-2012 Conference Calendar

Chicagoland Organization of Writing, Literacy, and Learning Centers (COWLLC) COWLLC is hosting the NCPTW conference this year. More about the NCPTW ...

2012 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference

“The Future is WAC” The 11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference June 7-9, 2012 Savannah, GA Hosted by The Department of Writing and ...

News and Announcements

IWCA Best Article Award for 2011

The International Writing Centers Association is proud to announce the recipient of the Best Article Award for 2011:Rebecca Babcock (University of Texas Permain Basin), “Interpreted Writing Center Tutorials with College-Level Deaf Students” (Linguistics and Education 22 [2011]: 95-117). The article was nominated by Therese Thonus. The IWCA’s Best Article Committee was chaired by Jackie Grutsch [...]

Letters from the President

2011 Review

IWCA Past President Roberta Kjesrud has prepared these two presentations as a way of reviewing the IWCA Board’s accomplishments during the past year. Prezi: http://prezi.com/jazpsrf9kxd6/international-writing-centers-association-2011-year-in-review/ Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/q9SI2bwaWy

Research

Request for Participation in Survey

Graduate student and writing center consultant Kelly Grossman from Miami University of Ohio requests participation in a national research survey about tutor training and language diversity in the writing center. If you are a writing center director or are deeply involved with coordinating or administering tutoring training at your college or university, please consider participating [...]

Publications

May/June Writing Lab Newsletter TOC

The May/June issue of the Writing Lab Newsletter (WLN) is heading for your mailbox and has the following articles:   Tutoring Teachers – Clyde Moneyhun and Patti Hanlon-Baker Director as Client: Participatory Observations in the Writing Center – Claudine Griggs Empathic Tutoring in the Third Space – Nancy Effinger Wilson and Keri Fitzgerald Tutor’s Column: [...]

Awards

IWCA Research Grant Awarded to Christopher Ervin

The IWCA Research Awards Committee is pleased to announce the January 2012 recipient of the IWCA Research Grant ($750) is Christopher Ervin of Western Kentucky University. Chris is currently studying cultures of undergraduate research in writing centers. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Chris has been conducting an ethnographic study of the Coe College Writing Center [...]