Praxis: A Writing Center Journal is a biannual electronic publication sponsored by the University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center, a component of the Division of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. It is a forum for writing center practitioners everywhere.

The Fall 2006 issue of Praxis focuses on writing center work at locations outside of colleges and universities, for example, at community gardens and city libraries. It thus explores ways in which universities can and do extend their resources to the larger communities they inhabit.

Although Focus contains only two articles, each is an extended discussion of the transformative power of writing center work. Elizabeth Rodacker and Kay Siebler break new ground in their article on the ELL work they do at the community gardens of Lincoln, Nebraska. Richard Kent brings his considerable experience to bear on the development of secondary school writing centers, thereby furthering a discussion begun in Praxis’s Fall 2004 issue. Our Featured Center, Stanford Writing Center, offers a complimentary perspective on writing centers in high schools through its Ravenswood program.

Praxis is published at http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/ .