Claire Hughes, IWCA 2008 Conference Chair, requests that those who attended the conference this year take a couple of minutes and complete a post-conference survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ydGo0hOp7dnGuv3xwbDdCQ_3d_3d .
Date: MW 16 on Monday, November 24
Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: 006B/HBG Convention Center, River Level
Featuring experienced writing center directors at the secondary and university levels, this all-day workshop will help teachers design and apply pedagogical models of writing center work with an emphasis on sustainability. Around five main themes–administrative politics, technology, academic literacy, [...]
“Alternate Routes: New Directions in Writing Center Work.”
Learn more about the Las Vegas conference at http://departments.weber.edu/writingcenter/IWCA%202008/IWCA.htm.
“Initiating Writing Center Work - Connecting Secondary, Higher, and Professional Education,” Padagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Keynote Speakers Michele Eodice, Magnus Gustafsson, Jonathan Worley, Pamela Childers, Matthew Martin, and Dilek Tokay.
Check it out here.
Submitted by Ann Harrington on Mon, 2008-05-12 14:18. General Discussion
Hi everyone,
My appreciation goes out to all of you who attended and made this such a special event. If you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to provide feedback so we can make the next conference even better.
Want to see conference pics? Go to:
http://picasaweb.google.com/harrington.writingcenter.pnwca
(Brandon [...]
The 2008 IWCA Summer Institute is in full swing in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. Those of us who were unable to attend can follow the goings-on of the SI at wcsi.blogspot.com. Additionally, Wednesday from 10:30 AM to Noon (US Central Daylight Time–the same time zone as Chicago), the SI will feature a live webcast: “How Did [...]
From the IWCA Summer Institute organizers:
Those of us organizing the 2008 IWCA Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are eager to share a small part of this year’s institute with the wider writing center community. We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be webcasting one of the plenary sessions, so you can sample the Summer [...]
NEW!
Inside the Community College Writing Center: Ten Guiding Principles
By Ellen G. Mohr
Johnson County Community College
$15.00 (+$200 shipping)
Also available from IWCA Press:
Writing at the Center: Proceedings of the 2004 Thomas R. Watson Conference (CD-ROM)
Louisville, Kentucky
Edited by Jo Ann Griffin, Carol Mattingly, and Michele Eodice
$15.00 (+ $2.00 shipping)
Download the IWCA Press order form to order the CD-ROM [...]
English and Study Skills Center Description (see www.mpc.edu for the full announcement)
Monterey Peninsula College’s English and Study Skills Center (ESSC) is located on the first floor of the campus’s state-of-the-art Library and Technology Center. This busy Center provides students from all disciplines with a wide range of programs in reading, writing, study skills, and related [...]
The department of English in the College of Arts & Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track position at the rank of lecturer to serve as Workshop Coordinator and ESL Writing Consultant. Responsibilities include preparing and leading business and other disciplinary writing workshops, providing individual writing instruction [...]
Pending final approval, we invite applications for the position of Associate Director of the Writing Center at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. The Associate Director is responsible for administering day-to-day operations of the Writing Center, such as supervising tutors and reception desk staff, managing the facilities and computer lab, and maintaining the Writing [...]
At the annual Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference (RMPTC), the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA) Board elected Chris Leycluse of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, as President Elect, Penny Bird of Brigham Young University as Treasurer, and Mike Mattison of Boise State University as Secretary. Chris, Penny, and Mike join in-coming President of [...]
A note from Clint Gardner, Past President of IWCA:
Those of you subscribed via RSS to the podcast feed should see the latest Peer Centered in your favorite podcast browser. If you want to view the video podcast via old-fashioned web browser or just want to subscribe to the podcast feed, go to http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/pc/podcast/ and [...]
Registration for the IWCA Summer Institute, which will take place July 20-25 in Madison, Wisconsin and will be led by Lisa Ede, Paula Gillespie, and Brad Hughes, opens Friday, February 15 and will be limited to fifty participants. The SI website is available at http://www.wisc.edu/writing/institute/ or by clicking the link on the sidebar on this [...]
The Center for Excellence in Writing at Penn State University is proud to present the Fall 2007 issue of the online newsletter, The Dangling Modifier. Go to http://www.ulc.psu.edu/Dangling_Modifier/index.php to see pictures from the 2007 NCPTW and read articles by tutors across the nation on topics such as crossing genre lines, tutoring creative writing, and [...]
Download the complete announcement at http://writingcenters.org/IWCA_SI_2008.pdf
Building on the tradition, excitement, and rich learning experiences of past IWCA Summer Institutes . . .
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Clark University, 2004
University of Kansas, 2005
Stanford University, 2006
Oregon State University, 2007 . . .
We’re delighted to announce the 6th annual IWCA Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals–
Sunday, July [...]
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal welcomes submissions for its Spring 2008 issue. Although we welcome essays on a wide range of topics related to writing centers, we especially encourage submissions on this issue’s theme: Authority and Cooperation. Many writing centers try to create a collaborative space free from the hierarchies of knowledge and power that [...]
