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, Washington and the community college representative for [...]

By Lisa Ede, Oregon State University, Paula Gillespie, Marquette University, and Brad Hughes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wow!  This past summer the three of us finished one of the most satisfying experiences of our long writing center careers–co-chairing the 6th Annual IWCA Summer Institute (SI), which was held July 20-25, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Because [...]

Theory—or at least the term “theory”—can be highly problematic.  Let me say upfront that I don’t make this claim lightly, for I feel as though I have spent much of my academic career pondering the relationship of theory and practice (primarily because I initially found the term theory to be so vexing).  Subsequently, I have [...]

Do essays make you feel uptight?
Do you have trouble when you write?
Perhaps you don’t know how to start
or end or write the middle part?
We can chase your fears away,
and show you what you want to say.
Do thesis statements make you wince?
Does evidence not quite convince?
Is organization but a dream?
(Five paragraphs are not the only scheme.)
Do [...]

Book Review
by
MaryAnn Crawford, Ellen Schendel, Barbara Toth
MaryAnn Crawford is the Director of the Writing Center/Basic Writing and University Writing Program and a Professor of English at Central Michigan University
Ellen Schendel is an Associate Professor in the Writing Department, and the Director of the Fred Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors at Grand Valley [...]