Featured Reading
“Writing Centers: More Than Remediation”: A National Writing Project Interview
An interview with high school writing center director Jennifer Wells
“Summary: Jennifer Wells, a teacher-consultant with the Central California Writing Project, writes about the establishment of a writing center at her high school and advises educators on how to create writing centers that are hubs of writing for …
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Conferences & Institutes
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The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing is accepting travel-grant applications from undergraduate and graduate peer tutors who are ...
In the spirit of collaboration and to provide meaningful support to ongoing writing center research, the IWCA will host its ...
European Middle East-North Africa Second bi-annual MENAWCA Conference will be held at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) on Feb 17 and ...
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News and Announcements
UW-Madison WC Presents New Podcast Interviews with Neal LernerThe Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to share three new podcasts from our research and professional series, featuring Neal Lerner (director of Training in Communication Instruction for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT)– 1. Lerner’s Writing Center Origins 2. ”If You Want to Understand Educational Reforms, You Have [...]
Letters from the President
Happy New Decade from Roberta Kjesrud, your new IWCA President! Michele Eodice, IWCA President 2007-2009, passes the gavels to incoming IWCA President Roberta Kjesrud at NCTE 2009. In this letter, I plan to • Introduce IWCA officers and board, • Summarize Board Biz, and • Invite your thoughts and ideas. If you are anything like I was before I got involved in this enterprise, you [...]
Research
Call for Participation: Inaugural Research Network Forum at 2010 IWCA-NCPTWIn the spirit of collaboration and to provide meaningful support to ongoing writing center research, the IWCA will host its inaugural Research Network Forum at this year’s IWCA-NCPTW Conference in Baltimore (November 4-6, 2010). The newly-formed RNF will feature researchers presenting works-in-progress (essay-length drafts, research plans, grant proposals, and other projects) to small groups, and [...]
Publications
Kairos 15.1 ReleasedKairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 15.1 for Fall 2010. This issue features the first submission ever peer-reviewed in a public open forum: Daniel Anderson’s poem, “I’m a Map, I’m a Tree,” which can be found in the Topoi section. Other articles contained in this [...]
Awards
IWCA Research Grants–Deadline January 1The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) serves to strengthen the writing center community through all of its activities. The IWCA offers its Research Grant to encourage scholars to apply and advance exiting theories and methods or create new knowledge. This grant supports quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, and applied projects associated with writing center research and application. [...]
