In honor of our 20-year anniversary, the Undergraduate Writing Center at The University of Texas at Austin will host a celebration and symposium on the future of writing centers. We invite your proposals for papers or panels that reflect creatively on the challenges writing centers face, the questions writing center professionals should be asking, and [...]
In the beautiful autumn of New Hampshire, at Dartmouth College Free and open to the public; designed for faculty and students The Summit, in honor of the 45th anniversary of the original 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, will focus on writing’s power and importance in the world today. It will feature four keynote speakers known for their [...]
The Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) is seeking applications for an editor or editorial team for Southern Discourse, the only regional writing center publication. The term is a five-year appointment, beginning February 2013 with the first independent issue to be published fall 2014. The selected editor or editorial team will continue the tradition of Southern [...]
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The 2012 NCPTW Ron Maxwell Award for Distinguished Leadership in Promoting the Collaborative Learning Practices of Peer Tutors in Writing Deadline for Nominations: August 31, 2012 The NCPTW Ron Maxwell Leadership Award is given annually to a professional in the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing organization who has contributed with [...]
PeerCentered (http://www.peercentered.org) will be returning to its roots this fall in order to celebrate its upcoming 20th anniversary. Originally, PeerCentered started as a live text chat where peer tutors around the world could share their writing center experiences with each other. It has since morphed into a blog where peer tutors post their thoughts. The [...]
This space is normally reserved for Letters from the President, but IWCA Secretary Kerri Jordan has an announcement that will sit in this space for a few months: The IWCA board is now accepting nominations for the following board member positions. These are board positions with voting privileges; two-year terms will begin in November of [...]
Centerpoint, a journal published by the staff of the Writing Center at Washington State University Vancouver, under the supervision of Kandy Roberston, Ph. D., is currently seeking articles on writing and the writing process. Artist-poet Richard F. Yates, and humorous newspaper columnist Richard O’Brien helm the current incarnation of the journal, which is dedicated to [...]
The SWCA Executive Board is excited to announce the Christine Cozzens Research Grant and Initiative Program. The CCRGIP is designed to encourage collaboration among new and established centers, support professional development for writing center administrators and staff, and further writing center research and scholarship throughout the SWCA region. This award is named after Dr. Cozzens [...]
The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) invites applications for editorial leadership (i.e., co-editors, editorial teams, single editors) of The Writing Center Journal (WCJ). Candidates will be screened according to the following criteria: Broad understanding of writing center scholarship and of rhetoric and composition studies; Experience with writing center administration and board service with regional writing [...]
Deadline for proposals has passed. The WIP Workshop Committee is reviewing proposals and will send notifications soon (as of August 8, 2012). In the spirit of collaboration and to provide meaningful support to ongoing writing center research, the IWCA will again host the Works-in-Progress Workshop (formerly announced as the IWCA Research Network Forum) at this [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
The Winter 2012 Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice. Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical studies and discussions of pedagogy. Articles may also consider the following: How writing center professionals cope [...]
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 Tutoring in Writing will take place in Chicago on November 2, 3, and 4, 2012. Proposals are invited through Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Visit the conference website for more information: http://condor.depaul.edu/writing/ncptw2012/index.html . Additionally, the [...]
The Southeastern Writing Center Association offers two competitive grants to individuals within the southeast region attending the annual IWCA Collaborative@CCCC. Winners will receive a cash award of $105 to defray the cost of registration for the Collaborative and be recognized on the SWCA website. Following the Collaborative, recipients will be asked to compose a brief [...]
The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association is pleased to announce that awards and grants are available for the 2012 MAWCA Conference <http://mawca2012.intuitwebsites.com/> , March 30th and 31st at Shippensburg University. Brief descriptions of each of the awards are below, along with links to additional information on the conference website. The deadline for submitting applications is Tuesday [...]
Dear ECWCA Members: We have five excellent ways for you to be involved in ECWCA. As you wait for our newsletter to be released later this week, read through this email and follow the links to see the amazing ways you can enhance your ECWCA experience. Below are the descriptions for each opportunity. You will [...]
The Writing Program Administrators Graduate Student Organization (WPA-GO) and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) are pleased to announce seven travel grants for current graduate students presenting at the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication, to be held March 21-24 in St. Louis, MO. Presentations must be related to writing program administration (e.g., [...]
March 21, 2012 – Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, MO Register for the Collaborative here. Download the preliminary program here. Writing Center Activism: From Ideals to Strategies In Facing the Center (Utah State UP, 2010), Harry Denny explores the ways in which identity politics impact writing center work. He observes that identifying such politics within [...]
Registration for the IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC Writing Center Activism: From Ideals to Strategies Wednesday, March 21, 2012 The Crowne Plaza Hotel 200 N. Fourth Street St. Louis, MO 63102 New! Register for the conference here. Registration FAQs What is the IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC? The Collaborative @ CCCC is an independent, annual IWCA event [...]
