Graduate student and writing center consultant Kelly Grossman from Miami University of Ohio requests participation in a national research survey about tutor training and language diversity in the writing center. If you are a writing center director or are deeply involved with coordinating or administering tutoring training at your college or university, please consider participating [...]
The National Center of Education Research (NCER – http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/) in the US Department of Education is looking to support research in Postsecondary and Adult Education writing and is seeking researchers and practitioners who may be interested in submitting research proposals. NCER is accepting proposals for exploratory, development, evaluation, and measurement work to improve student outcomes [...]
See http://writingcenters.org/about/grants/ for information about IWCA research grants.
Peer Tutors and the Conversation of Writing Center Studies: An Undergraduate Research Issue of Writing Center Journal The Writing Center Journal is calling for submissions for a special issue recognizing undergraduate research in and on the writing center. This special issue will consist of undergraduate submissions focused on the topic of undergraduate research of any [...]
Jacob Blumner and Pamela Childers are working on an article based on the pre-conference workshop they led at the WAC Conference at Indiana University in May 2010. In order to have a better idea of what high school-college partnerships are now occruing throughout the world, they would appreciate if you could participate in a short [...]
This edited collection, Transnational Writing Program Administration, aims to focus wide-spread disciplinary attention to the issues of transnational writing program administration. The number of US based colleges and universities that have established relationships with internationally-based universities has increased significantly since the late 1990s. In February, 2008, the New York Times presented a Global Classrooms series [...]
FYHC: The Journal of First-year Honors Composition http://fyhc.info, a peer-reviewed academic journal, is pleased to announce its re-launch. FYHC was inaugurated in spring 2006 with the intention of being the national forum for collegial discussion of issues related to first-year honors composition. FYHC is now accepting submissions for our second issue, to be published in [...]
Inaugural Topic: “GOT DATA—NOW WHAT?” Dartmouth College’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, in collaboration with the Council of Writing Program Administrators, announces its first annual two-week Research Summer Seminar, July 31-August 12, 2011. Purpose and Focus: This inaugural year’s focus will be “Got Data—Now What?” The program is designed to support members of our field [...]
This collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, will provide a source-book for collaborative peer review and response (CPRR) theory and practice. The audience will include new/experienced writing TAs and instructors; WPAs; writing center, WAC, and service learning personnel. Papers will focus on how, when, and why to engage [...]
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 [...]
A request for participation in research: My name is Greg Mueller and I am a graduate student at The University of Dayton who is conducting research on high school writing centers for my master’s thesis project. I am analyzing different methods of organization and structure of high school writing centers in an effort to see [...]
This short video introduces the motivations behind our survey research project: Documenting Writing Center Work (http://vimeo.com/2878322). If you direct a writing center, please take the survey at: tinyurl.com/wcwork . Thanks for watching! Jackie Grutsch McKinney, jrmckinney@bsu.edu Rebecca Jackson, rj10@txstate.edu Documenting Writing Center Work from jackie grutsch mckinney on Vimeo.
A special issue of Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning and Academic Writing, Fall 2010 (http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/) Writing across the Curriculum at the Community College: Beating the Odds Guest editor: Clint Gardner, Salt Lake Community College Writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines (WAC/WID) programs in community colleges have been the focus [...]
Nick David and Dr. Norman Evans are seeking survey participants for a research project they are conducting involving community college writing centers. Their research focuses on tutor and director perceptions of ESL (English as a second language) student errors and how to better assess and eventually meet these students’ needs in the writing center. These [...]
Jackie Grutsch McKinney requests participation in a new survey of writing center activities: Dear friends and colleagues, Today, after months of preparations, we are launching a new survey of writing center directors. This survey seeks to document all the work that happens in writing centers beyond one-to-one tutoring. To our knowledge, a survey on this [...]
The Writing Centers Research Project is pleased to announce the 4th biannual writing center survey. Please go to http://www.wcrp.louisville.edu and click on “Take the Survey for 2008!” Directors who have completed the survey in previous years may simply update information that has changed. If your school is not listed, you may create an institutional profile [...]
James McDonald and Valerie Balester are doing a follow up of “A View of Status and Working Conditions: Relations Between Writing Program and Writing Center Directors” Writing Program Administration 24.3 (Spring 2001): 59-82. We invite past and present writing center directors to take a survey to add to our data. It could take as few [...]
