Featured Reading
NoCal WCA 2008 Conference Keynote Address by Sherri Winans
IWCA presents a screencast of Sherri Winans’ 2008 Northern California Writing Centers Association Regional Conference keynote address entitled “Writing Selves in the Center: Possibility, Play, and Potential Space.” Visit http://media.waol.org/8433/Writing%20Selves%20Sherri%20Winans.swf to view the keynote address.
Sherri is director of the Writing Center at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, …
Recent Updates
Conferences & Institutes
Spring 2009 Meeting of the Chicagoland Organization of Writing, Literacy, and Learning Centers (COWLLC) When: Friday, May 15th from 11 a.m. ...
North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing "Perceptions and (mis)Representations: Writing in Secondary and Post-Secondary Classrooms" October 16-17, 2009 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC The ...
The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) is a scholarly organisation and listserv that brings together those ...
25th Annual Conference October 22-24, 2009 Rapid City, SD For its 25th annual conference, the Midwest Writing Centers Association is heading west. The ...
This is an announcement and invitation to participate in the International Conference on Language Policy, Planning and Support in Higher ...
News and Announcements
A Ning is Born!A new online resource for middle and high school writing centers, and the people who love them, has been created: a Ning! The address is: http://writingcenters.ning.com/
What is a Ning?
A Ning is a social network, an online place for people to have discussions, write blogs, upload photos and video, and make new connections, but unlike more [...]
Letters from the President
Letter from Norman, April 2009 Cheers! Join me as I celebrate 20 years since my first day as a peer tutor. When I look back, I see my professor Tom Reigstad (it was an internship experience for his class on the teaching of writing that placed me as a peer tutor) sending me on a path that would later define [...]
Publications
Praxis Spring 2009 LaunchedFrom the editors of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
We are pleased to announce that the Spring, 2009 issue of Praxis: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers is now published and available online at: http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/ .
Thank you for your continuing support of Praxis,
Patricia Burns and Brooke Hunter
Managing Editors
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
The Undergraduate Writing Center
The [...]
Awards
IWCA Research Grant Winners AnnouncedThe IWCA Research Awards Committee (Karen Keaton-Jackson, North Carolina Central University, Michael Mattison, Boise State University, and Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, Chair, Southwestern University) are pleased to announce the recipients of the most recent round of research grant review. After considering an impressive and unprecedentedly large pool of proposals, we decided to fund two truly exceptional ones.
Zanice [...]
