On behalf of the IWCA Board, the Constitution Committee presents the final version of the revised constitution available for review. We made a few small but clarifying revisions based on your comments, so a hearty “thank you” for your help. We believe this final draft accomplishes the Board’s main goals. 1. The revision aligns our [...]
Featured on National Writing Project Radio on February 28: “Join us this week as we talk to Writing Project site leaders, teachers, administrators, and students about student-run writing centers as centers of leadership development for administrators, teachers, and students. Learn how the Northern Virginia Writing Project is taking up support of writing centers as part [...]
Attending CCCC in Las Vegas this week? Download a list of writing-centered sessions. New to the conference experience? Read Jasmine Kar Tang’s and Katie Levin’s guide below (originally published in the MWCA newsletter). Getting the Most from Your Conference Experience, compiled by Jasmine Kar Tang and Katie Levin Attending your first academic conference can be [...]
Abstract: While acknowledging some perhaps familiar sticky situations, including omnipresent issues of L2 writers, my paper will focus on successful integrations of technologies into writing center consulting and tutorials. This presentation is about recent changes in two types of writing consultations that integrate Internet technologies: face to face (f2f) writing tutorials and synchronous online sessions [...]
At the beginning of the fall, 2012 school year, the Marian E. Wright Writing Center at the University of Michigan-Flint delved into the social media world of Twitter. Using the handle @UMFlintWC our writing center hoped to get our campus connected with writing tips and hints, writers and ideally, other writing centers. The first few [...]
For many years, writing center tutors have consistently played down the role of editing. The widespread use of tutor training materials, such as The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors and The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors, has led writing center professionals to develop such mantras as “Tutors should deal with global issues before local [...]
By Matthew Capdevielle, Director of the Writing Center, University of Notre Dame “So, what are you working on today?” “When is your paper due?” “Are you concerned about anything in particular in this draft?” In the writing center that I direct at the University of Notre Dame, we spend a good deal of time asking [...]
Like lines drawn in the sand… Writing Center work is continuously recast by ever-changing policies in higher education, innovations in technology, outsourced alternatives to student services, increased diversity of student populations, and progressions in writing center praxis. With the tides, we must be willing to shift within our philosophies and our policies in order to [...]
Each year, writingcenters.org publishes a review of the prior year’s conferences–short reflections and full-length papers that were presented at the prior year’s IWCA, NCPTW, and regional conferences. We are pleased to present IWCA Conference Notes #3, which will run through the remainder of summer 2011. Download IWCA Conference Notes #3 here. Enjoy!
Save the Date: IWCA Talk Time for March, 2011, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern (12 Cen, 11 Mtn, 10 Pac) Join Jared Featherstone and members of his writing center staff for the first spring 2011 IWCA Talk Time. Jared and staff will discuss the conception and production of their writing center music video “We Think You’re Gonna [...]
Wittenberg University Writing Center’s short film can be viewed at http://www5.wittenberg.edu/administration/writingcenter/movie.html . Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Unfortunate Writer by Laura Kay, Wittenberg University When I was originally approached to create promotional films for the Wittenberg Writing Center, my initial idea was to simply make videos that were straightforward, to the point, and [...]
Since the inception of the European Writing Centers Association, Dilek Tokay has served as a founder, leader, and moving force in the development of the organization and its collaboration with IWCA. She has hosted the EWCA conference, served as president, and hosts the EWCA website among other things. She has hosted many leaders from IWCA [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Leigh Ryan and Dr. Brian Fallon for recognition of their outstanding service and leadership in IWCA and NCPTW. At the November 6 keynote luncheon at the IWCA-NCPTW 2010 conference in Baltimore, MD, Drs. Ryan and Fallon were presented with their respective awards. Below is the transcript of the speech given by Al [...]
Paula Gillepsie, Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing at Florida International University and former President of the International Writing Centers Association (2001-03), writes about language diversity students at the CCCC Blog: “One year and one month ago I made a move that was as much a seismic shift as a transplantation. After 29 [...]
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 2010 following NCTE. Positions include: • Six at-large representatives • One graduate student representative • One community college representative • One secondary school representative All nominees must be [...]
An interview with high school writing center director Jennifer Wells “Summary: Jennifer Wells, a teacher-consultant with the Central California Writing Project, writes about the establishment of a writing center at her high school and advises educators on how to create writing centers that are hubs of writing for writers of all levels.” Read Art Peterson’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 submit [...]
