The Hurricane and the Writing Lab
by Bonnie Devet and tutors Ericka Burroughs, Lydia Hopson, Donna Kenyon, Trisha Martin, Cheryl Sims, Hope Norment, Liz Young, Prof. Sylvia Gamboa, Prof. Kathy Haney
College of Charleston Writing Lab
In late September, Hurricane Hugo roared through Charleston, South Carolina, ripping off roofs, toppling massive oaks onto buildings, and flooding historic homes. [...]

Access the IWCA NDoW blog and read what those in and out of your time zones are writing: http://blogs.bgsu.edu/dayonwriting .
For our international writing center friends, please join in the celebration of writing at http://blogs.bgsu.edu/internationaldayonwriting.
Visit the IWCA’s NDoW information page at http://writingcenters.org/2009/10/participate-in-the-national-day-of-writing-october-20-2009/ .

Visit Writing Centers’ National Galleries of Writing and other NDoW sites at http://writingcenters.org/2009/10/writing-center-ndow-galleries-submit-your-link-today-ndow-is-october-20/ .

Dear Writing Center Colleagues,
Perhaps you’re still planning your celebration for the National Day on Writing. The IWCA team to promote NDoW is at no loss for ideas–
Karl Fornes, The University of South Carolina Aiken Writing Center, has suggested a writing marathon with [...]

Beginning in Spring 2009, a biannual feature of the IWCA website will be a collection of reflections and reports from the semester’s writing center-related conferences, institutes, and other events. The pieces will be authored by conference participants; all IWCA members as well as non-members who attended a conference or other event are invited to [...]

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 [...]