PeerCentered is looking to form an editorial board of peer writing tutors for a special print publication. PeerCentered[Unplugged] Call for Editorial Board Members PeerCentered is looking for motivated peer tutors to comprise an editorial board for a special publication project to be completed by fall 2013. The publication, tentatively titled PeerCentered[Unplugged] will be a collection [...]

Praxis Spring 2012 Call For Papers: Multiliteracy and the Writing Center The New London Group (1996) uses the term multiliteracies to describe “two important arguments we might have with the emerging cultural, institutional, and global order: the multiplicity of communication channels and media, and the increasing saliency of cultural and linguistic diversity.” Additionally, the authors [...]

Table of contents: • “Tutoring Survey and Interview Questions: A Tangible Lesson in Audience,” by Jennifer Jefferson • “Dialogic for ‘Their Own Ends’:  Increasing the Pedagogical Independence of Peer Tutors,” by Rita Malenczyk and Lauren Rosenberg • “Caught Between a Teacher and a Tutor,” by Eric Sentell • Tutor’s Column: “Music and Words; How Band [...]

The Writing Lab Newsletter is seeking applications from our readership for a new position, titled Writing Lab Newsletter Development Editor.  The Development Editor will help broaden WLN’s reader base and also strengthen WLN’s online presence, including orchestrating new interactive features, facilitating community spaces, and engaging in outreach to WLN readers and writing center practitioners.  This [...]

Submit Papers on Writing for the WSU Vancouver Writing Center Journal, Centerpoint. VANCOVER, WASH. – 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. Journalist and playwright, Steffen Silvis, and [...]

Peer Tutors and the Conversation of Writing Center Studies: An Undergraduate Research Issue of Writing Center Journal Almost thirty years ago, in “Peer Tutoring and the Conversation of Mankind,” Kenneth Bruffee implicitly positioned undergraduate peer tutors as practitioner-researchers when he asserted that “peer tutoring is one way of introducing students to the process by which [...]

Writing Lab Newsletter 36.1-2 will be in the mail soon. The table of contents follows:  • The (Un)Importance of a Preposition: How We Define and Defend Writing Center Work. By Tabitha Adkins • Review of Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric. Ed. David Sheridan and James Inman. Review by Jo Koster [...]

Praxis, the writing center journal at The University of Texas at Austin is happy to announce the publication of its Fall 2011 issue, From Triage to Outreach: Raising the Institutional Profile of Writing-Center Work. Please find our latest issue at online at the Praxis website: http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/. Beginning this spring, Praxis will be published as a [...]

The Winter 2011 Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for the 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.  We are especially interested in articles [...]

September 2010 issue of the Writing Lab Newsletter (Vol. 35.1) “But It Is Rocket Science! : E-mail Tutoring Outside Your Comfort Zone”—Ted Remington Book Review: Beth Hewett. The Online Writing Conference: A Guide for Teachers and Tutors—Reviewed by Susan Mueller Book Review: Mya Poe, Neal Lerner, and Jennifer Craig. Learning to Communicate in Science and [...]

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 15.1 for Fall 2010. This issue features the first submission ever peer-reviewed in a public open forum: Daniel Anderson’s poem, “I’m a Map, I’m a Tree,” which can be found in the Topoi section. Other articles contained in this [...]

From the editors of Writing Center Journal: WCJ has just put in the mail the 30th Anniversary issue. Its theme is “An Alternate History.” That is, we’ve attempted to thread the history of the journal beyond the well loved, oft cited essays that have long comprised the narrative of the field. Below is the table [...]

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (http://www.muohio.edu/ject/) is seeking manuscript submissions for a forthcoming special issue: “Supporting Nonnative-English-Speaking Instructors to Maximize Student Learning in Their Courses” Guest Editors Soonhyang Kim Assistant Professor & TESOL Director D’Youville College Ryuko Kubota Professor, Language and Literacy Education University of British Columbia Deadline for Manuscripts: March 1, 2011 [...]

As the academic year begins to wind down, please consider submitting your research (undergraduates only) in rhetoric and writing studies  to Young Scholars in Writing, an international, peer-reviewed journal that is fully indexed in the MLA bibliography. YSW welcomes research articles on writing and rhetoric authored by undergraduate students at all levels–from graduating seniors to [...]

The Spring 2010 issue of Praxis is now available at http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/ . This installment of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal focuses on Professionalization and the Writing Center.

Writingcenters.org, the website of the International Writing Centers Association, invites news and announcements of interest to the writing center community as well as submissions of original presentations/papers or brief reflections on regional conferences, the IWCA Collaborative, writing center-related sessions at CCCC or other national conferences, or the IWCA conference. Submissions will be considered for the [...]

CFP: Spring 2010 Issue of Praxis: Professionalization and the Writing Center, Part II Praxis: A Writing Center Journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics related to writing centers for its Spring 2010 issue. We also encourage submissions on this issue’s theme: Professionalization and the Writing Center as well as responses to articles in [...]

Thomas Ferrell, Rebecca Day Babcock, and Moira Ozias are compiling a bibliography of publications that had their start in an IWCA Summer Institute. They are attempting to get a complete list of these publications as well as the stories of their generation and fruition. If you have such a publication, please send to Thomas Ferrell [...]

From the editors of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal We are pleased to announce that the Spring, 2009 issue of Praxis: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers is now published and available online at:  http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/ Thank you for your continuing support of Praxis, Patricia Burns and Brooke Hunter Managing Editors Praxis: A Writing Center [...]

The Editorial Department at Glencoe/McGraw-Hill is seeking proposals with sample content for a high school College Readiness program. We are considering submissions from postsecondary and qualified secondary instructors. The deadline for proposals is 2/21/2009. If you are interested, please send your request for proposal guidelines to the Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Editorial Department through Ms. Zee Burns at [...]