Articles listed below from Writing Lab Newsletter and Writing Center Journal may be accessed full-text from several databases, including CompPile, Writing Lab Newsletter online, and Education Research Complete. Some of these databases require subscriptions, but others are open access. For a complete list of databases that provide full-text access to these two IWCA-affiliated journals, visit http://writingcenters.org/journal-access .

HISTORY

Boquet, Elizabeth H. “Our Little Secret: A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions.” College Composition and Communication 50.3 (1999): 463-82.

Carino, Peter. “Early Writing Centers: Toward a History.” The Writing Center Journal 15. 2 (1995): 103-15

“Open Admissions and the Construction of Writing Center History: A Tale of Three Models.” The Writing Center Journal 17.1 (1996): 30-48.

Harris, Muriel. “What’s Up and What’s In: Trends and Traditions in Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Journal 11.1 (1990): 15-25.

Kinkead, Joyce. “The International Writing Centers Association as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Ten Years.” The Writing Center Journal 16.2 (1996): 131-143.

Yahner, William, and William Murdick. “The Evolution of a Writing Center: 1972-1990.” The Writing Center Journal 11.2 (1991): 13-28.

ADMINISTRATION, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, AND PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS

Bell, Jim. “Promotional Ideas for Writing Centers.” Writing Lab Newsletter 21.1 (1996): 1-4.

Carroll, Shireen, Bruce Pegg, and Stephen Newmann. “Size Matters: Administering a Writing Center in a Small College Setting.” Writing Lab Newsletter 24.5 (2000): 1-5.

Cox, Bené Scanlon. “Priorities and Guidelines for the Development of Writing Centers: A Delphi Study.” In Olson: 77-84.

Farrell, Pamela B. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998.

Healy, Dave. “Writing Center Directors: An Emerging Portrait of the Profession.” Writing Program Administration 18.3 (Spring 1995): 26-43.

Kinkead, Joyce A. Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993.

Olson, Gary A., ed. Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984.

“Establishing and Maintaining a Writing Center in a Two-year College.” In Olson: 87-100.

Riley, Terrance. “The Unpromising Future of Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Journal 15.1 (1994): 20-34.

Simpson, Jeanne. “Perceptions, Realities, and Possiblities: Central Administration and Writing Centers.” In Stay, Murphy, and Hobson: 48-52.

“What Lies Ahead for Writing Centers: Position Statement on Professional Concerns.” The Writing Center Journal 5.2/6.1 (1985): 35-39. In Murphy and Law: 57-61.

Stay, Byron L., Christina Murphy, and Eric H. Hobson, eds. Writing Center Perspectives. Emmitsburg, MD: IWCA Press, 1995.

Wallace, Ray, and Jeane Simpson, eds. The Writing Center: New Directions. New York: Garland, 1991.

GRADUATE STUDENT ADMINISTRATION (Compiled by Karen Rowan)

Note: Many of these articles deal with graduate student administrators in both writing centers and writing programs. Writing center-specific entries are marked with asterisks.

Anson, Chris M., and Carol Rutz. “Graduate Students,Writing Programs, and Consensus-Based Management: Collaboration in the Face of Disciplinary Ideology. WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2-3 (1998): 106-20.

Brown, Johanna. “The Peer Who Isn’t a Peer: Authority and the Graduate Student Administrator.” Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers,and Troubadours. Ed. Diana George. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook,1999. 120-5.

Desser, Daphne and Darin Payne. “Writing Program Administration Internships.” The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource:A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. 89-100.

*Dickel, Michael, and Julie Eckerle. Rev. of The Writing Center Resource Manual, ed. Bobbie Bayliss Silk. Writing Lab Newsletter 22.4 (1998): 7-9.

Duffey, Suellyn, Ben Feigert, Vic Mortimer, Jennifer Phegley, and Melinda Turnley. “Conflict, Collaboration, And Authority:Graduate Students and Writing Program Administration.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 79-87.

Ebest, Sally Barr. “The Next Generation of WPAs: A Study of Graduate Students in Composition/Rhetoric.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 22.3 (1999): 65-84.

*Eckerle, Julie, Karen Rowan, and Shevaun Watson. “From Graduate Student to Administrator: Practical Models for Mentorship and Professional Development in Writing Centers and Writing Programs.” Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession. Ed. Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, forthcoming.

*–. “Graduate Student Writing Center Administrators: Some Concerns and Proposals.” Writing Lab Newsletter 25.6 (2001):4-6.

*–. “IWCA Graduate Student Position Statement.”Writing Center Journal 23.1 (2002): 59-61.

*–. “The Tale of a Position Statement: Finding a Voice for the Graduate Student Administrator in Writing Center Discourse.” Working with Graduate Students in the Writing Center. Ed. Melissa Nicolas and Beth Rapp Young. Volume in progress.

*–. “When the Administrator is a Graduate Student:Suggestions and Concerns.” The Writing Center Resource Manual. 2nd ed. Ed. Bobbie Bayliss Silk. Emmitsburg, Md: NWCA, 2001. Section IV.8.

*–. “Why the Graduate Student Position Statement Matters.” Praxis http://uwc3.fac.utexas.edu/~praxis/. Forthcoming.

Enos, Theresa. “Reflexive Professional Development:Getting Disciplined in Writing Program Administration.” The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. 59-70.

Fontaine, Sheryl. “Revising Administrative Models and Questioning the Value of Appointing Graduate Student WPAs.” Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies. Ed. Sheryl Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998. “Future Perfect: Administrative Work and the Professionalization of Graduate Students.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 40-87.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura, and Lisa Cahill. “Power, Knowledge, and the Nature of Graduate Student Expertise in WAC/WID Administration.” Dialogue 6.2 (2000): 111-44.

Holberg, Jennifer, and Marcy Taylor. “Apprenticeship vs. Partnership: Graduate Students as Administrators.” Composition Chronicle 8.9 (1996): 6-8.

Jukuri, Stephen, and W.J. Williamson. “How to Bea Wishy-Washy Graduate Student WPA, or Undefined but Overdetermined: The Positioning of Graduate Student WPAs.” Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours. Ed. Diana George. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999. 105-119.

Long, Mark, Jennifer Holberg and Marcy Taylor. “Beyond Apprenticeship: Graduate Students, Professional Development, and the Future(s) of English Studies.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 20.1-2 (1996): 66-78.

McNabb, Richard. “Future Perfect: Administrative Work and the Professionalization of Graduate Students: Introduction.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 40-41.

Miller, Scott, et al. “Present Perfect and Future Imperfect: National Survey of Graduate Students in Rhetoric and Composition.” College Composition and Communication 48.3 (1997): 392-409.

Miller, Thomas P. “Why Don’t Our Graduate Programs Do a Better Job of Preparing Students for the Work That We Do.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 24.3 (Spring 2001): 41-58.

Mountford, Roxanne. “From Labor to Middle Management: Graduate Students in Writing Program Administration.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 41-53.

Pemberton, Michael. “Tales Too Terrible to Tell:Unstated Truths and Under preparation in Graduate Composition Programs.” Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Ed. Sheryl Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Carbondale: SUIP, 1993. 154-73.

Peters, Bradley. “Enculturation, Not Alchemy: Professionalizing Novice Writing Program Administrators.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2-3 (1998): 121-36.

Thomas, Trudelle. “The Graduate Student as Apprentice WPA: Experiencing the Future.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 14.3 (1991): 41-51.

White, Edward. “Teaching a Graduate Course in Writing Program Administration.” The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. 101-112.

Willard-Traub, Margaret K. “Professionalization and the Politics of Subjectivity.” Rhetoric Review 21.1 (2002): 61-70.

THEORY

Behm, Richard. “Ethical Issues in Peer Tutoring: A Defense of Collaborative Learning.” The Writing Center Journal 10 (1989): 3-12.

Brannon, Lil, and C.H. Knoblauch. “A Philosophical Perspective on Writing Centers and the Teaching of Writing.” In Olson: 36-47.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. “Peer Tutoring and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.’” In Olson: 3-15. In Murphy and Law: 87-98.

Bushman, Donald E. “Past Accomplishments and Current Trends in Writing Center Research: A Bibliographic Essay.” In Wallace and Simpson: 27-38.

Carino, Peter. “Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task.” Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 2.1 (1995): 23-37.

Ede, Lisa. “Writing as Social Process: A Theoretical Foundation for Writing Centers?” The Writing Center Journal 9.2 (1989): 3-14. In Murphy and Law: 99-107.

Gillam, Alice. “Collaborative Learning Theory and Peer Tutoring Practice.” In Mullin and Wallace: 39-53.

“Solutions and Trade-offs in the Writing Center.” The Writing Center Journal 12.1 (1991): 63-79.

Hobson, Eric. “Writing Center Practice Often Counters Its Theory. So What?” In Mullin and Wallace: 1-19

Kail, Harvey, and John Trimbur. “The Politics of Peer Tutoring.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 11(1987): 5-12. In Murphy and Law: 203-210.

Lunsford, Andrea. “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center.” The Writing Center Journal 12.1 (1991): 3-10. In Murphy and Law: 109-115. In Murphy and Sherwood: 36-42.

Mullin, Joan A., and Ray Wallace, eds. Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994.

Murphy, Christina, and Joe Law, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1995.

“Writing Centers in Contect: Responding to Current Educational Theory.” In Wallace and Simpson: 276-88. In Murphy and Law: 117-125.

“The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory.” In Mullin and Wallace: 25-38.

North, Stephen. “The Idea of a Writing Center” College English 46 (September) 1984: 436-446. In Murphy and Law: 71-85 In Murphy and Sherwood: 22-36.

“Revisiting ‘The Idea of a Writing Center.’” The Writing Center Journal 15.1 (1994): 7-19.

Trimbur, John. “Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning.”

College English 51 (October) 1989: 602-616. —. “Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms?” The Writing Center Journal 7.2 (1987): 21-27.

Warnock, Tilly, and John Warnock. “Liberatory Writing Centers: Restoring Authority to Writers.” In Olson: 16-23.

PRACTICE

Brooks, Jeff. “Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work.” Writing Lab Newsletter 15.6 (1991): 1-4. In Murphy and Sherwood: 83-87.

Friedlander, Alexander. “Meeting the Needs of Foreign Students in the Writing Center.” In Olson: 206-215.

Fulwiler, Toby. “Provocative Revision.” The Writing Center Journal 12.2 (1992): 190-204.In Murphy and Sherwood: 71-82.

Konstant, Shoshona Beth. “Muti-sensory Tutoring for Multi-sensory Learners. Writing Lab Newsletter 16.9-10 (1992): 6-8. In Murphy and Sherwood: 108-111.

Neff, Julie. “Learning Disablities in the Writing Center.” In Mullin and Wallace: 81-95.

Powers, Judith K. “Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer. The Writing Center Journal 13.2 (1993): 39-47.

PEER TUTORING TRAINING AND ISSUES

Bannister-Wills, “Linda. Developing a Peer Tutor Program.” In Olson: 132-143.

Capossela, Toni-Lee. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Peer Tutoring. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1998.

Cobb, Loretta, and Elaine Kilgore Elledge. “Undergraduate Staffing in the Writing Center.” In Olson: 123-131.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Harris, Muriel. Teaching Writing: A Sourcebook for Writing Labs.

Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1982.

Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Center Conference. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1986.

Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood. The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.

Raforth, Ben. A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One. New York: Heinemann, 2000

Reigstad, Thomas J., and Donald McAndrew. Training Tutors for Writing Center Conferences. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984.

Ryan, Leigh. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. Boston: Bedford, 1994.

Smith, Louise, and Emily Myer. The Practical Tutor.New York: Oxford, 1987.

ONLINE WRITING CENTERS

Hobson, Eric H. Wiring the Writing Center. Logan, Utah. Utah University Press, 1998.

Inman, James A., and Donna M. Sewell. Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Inman, James A., and Clinton Gardner. The OwL Contstruction and Maintenance Guide. Emmitsburg, MA: IWCA Press, 2001.

“Online Writing Labs: Should We? Will We? Are We?” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 1.1 (Spring 1996).

K-12 WRITING CENTERS

This bibliography was compiled by Jeanette Jordan, Pamela Childers, Jen Wells, and Dawn Fels, among others, and contains scholarship that should be of use to secondary school writing center directors.

Baker, Wills, Anthony Conney, Brandall Jones, David Mullens, Sean Murnan, and Pamela Childers.” Independent Studies in Writing Based in the Writing Center.” Southern Discourse: Publication of the Southeastern Writing Center Association 10.3 (Summer 2007): 6-7.

Childers, Pamela B. “Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

—. “College/High School Connections.” The Writing Lab Newsletter, May-June1992, 1+.

—. “Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

—. “The Evolution of Secondary School Writing Centers.” Kansas English 90.2 (2006):83-91.

—. “High School-College Collaborations: Making Them Work.” Across the Disciplines Feb. 2007 http://wac.colostate.edu/atd.

—. “The Talk I Didn’t Give at the Watson Conference.” Writing at the Center: Proceedings of the 2004 Thomas R.Watson Conference Louisville, Kentucky. Eds. Jo Ann Griffin, Carol Mattingly, and Michele Eodice. Emmistburg, MD: IWCA Press, 2007.

—. “Writing Center or Experimental Center for Faculty Research, Discovery and Risk Taking?” Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships. Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Childers, Pamela, Dawn Fels, and Jeanette Jordan. “The Secondary School Writing Center: A Place to Build Confident, Competent Writers.” Praxis. Vol. 2 Issue 2 Fall 2004. http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=node/91

Childers, Pamela B., Jeanette Jordan, and James K. Upton. “Virtual High School Writing Centers: A Spectrum of Possibilities.” Wiring the Writing Center. Eric H. Hobson, ed. Logan, UT: Utah State Press, 1998.

Childers, Pamela B., Jud Laughter, Michael Lowry, and Steve Trumpeter. “Developing a Communicty in a Secondary School Writing Center.” Weaving Knowledge Together: Writing Centers and Collaboration. Carol Peterson Haviland, Maria Notarangelo, Lene Whitley-Putz, and Thia Wolf, eds. Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1998.

Childers, Pamela B., and Jim Upton. “Political Issues in Secondary School Writing Centers.” The Politics of Writing Centers. Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Childers, Pamela B., ed. The Clearing House. Special Issue 80.2 (Nov/Dec. 2006).

Farrell, Pamela. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

Gardner, Clint, and Pamela Childers. “Differences That Draw Us Together.” Southern Discourse: Publication of the Southeastern Writing Center Association 10.2 (Spring 2007): 6-7.

Geller, Anne Ellen, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, and Elizabeth Bouquet. Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2006.

Grant, Tripp, Andrew Murphy, and Ben Stafford with Pamela Childers. “Peer Tutors and Students Work with Assessment.” The Clearing House, 71.2 (Nov./Dec. 1997), 103-105.

Jordan, Jeanette. “Change from Within: The Power of a Homegrown Writing Center.” The Clearing House. Special Issue. 80.2 (Nov./Dec. 2006): 52-55.

Kent, Richard. A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

McAndrew, Donald A., and Thomas J. Reigstad. Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for Conferences. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Mullin, Joan, and Pamela Farrell-Childers. “The Natural Connection: The WAC Program and the High School Writing Center.” The Clearing House, Sept./Oct. 1995, 24-26.

Mullin, Joan A., and Ray Wallace, eds. Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994.

Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood. St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. 3rd ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

Murray, Donald. Write to Learn. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1984.

—. A Writer Teaches Writing. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Robinson, Wayne. Writing Across Borders. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State Press, 2005.

Silk, Bobbie, ed. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1998.

Silva, Peggy. “Launching a High School Writing Center.” Praxis. Vol. 2 Issue 2 Fall 2004. http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=node/40.

Straka, Jan, and Pamela Childers. “Developing Lifelong Language Skills in a Writing Center.” The Writing Lab Newsletter June 2004, 5-6.

Tipper, Meg. “Real Men Don’t Do Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Journal 19.2 (1999).

Turner, Melissa. “Writing Centers: Being Proactive in the Education Crisis.” The Clearing House. Special Issue. 80.2 (Nov./Dec. 2006): 45-48.

Wells, Jennifer. “’It Sounds Like Me’: Using Creative Nonfiction to Teach College Admissions Essays.” English Journal 98.1 (Sept. 2008): 47-52.

Resources Specifically Targeted to K-12 Writing Centers

Additional Resources for Secondary School Writing Centers

Barnett, Robert, and Jacob Blumner. WAC and Faculty Development in Writing Centers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Bishop, Wendy. Teaching Lives. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997.

Black, Laurel Johnson. Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998.

Brannon, Lil, Melinda Knight, and Vara Nemerow-Turk. Writers Writing. Upper Montclair NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1982

Briggs, Lynn Craigue, and Meg Woolbright, eds. Stories from the Center: Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Childers, Pamela, Eric Hobson, and Joan Mullin. ARTiculating: Teaching Writing in a Visual World. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.

Duke, Charles R., and Rebecca Sanchez. Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001.

Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

Farrell-Childers, Pamela, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young. Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton-Cook, 1994.

Harris, Jeanette, and Joyce Kinkead, eds. The Writing Center Journal 11.1. (Fall/Winter 1990).

Harris, Muriel. Tutoring Writing: A Sourcebook for Writing Labs. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1982.

North, Stephen. “The Idea of a Writing Center.” College English 46:5 (1984): 433-36.

—. “Revisiting ‘The Idea of a Writing Center.’” The Writing Center Journal 15.1 (Fall 1994): 7-19.

Kinkead, Joyce, and Michael Pemberton. The Center Will Hold. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003.

Murphy, Christina, and Joe Law, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1995.

Nelson, Jane, and Kathy Evertz. The Politics of Writing Centers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Romano, Tom. Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1987.

Ryan, Leigh and Lisa Zimmerelli. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. 2th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2006.

Shapiro, Susan R., and Deborah A. Marinelli. College Transition: A Critical Thinking Approach. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Shea, Renee H., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. Boston: Bedfort/St. Martin’s, 2008.

Tchudi, Stephen, ed. Alternatives to Grading Student Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.

White, Edward M. Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher’s Guide. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. Prepared for the International Writing Centers Association NCTE Workshop, New York City, November 19, 2007 (updated Oct. 2008).

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