Writing Center Directors
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Contents
- Mail lists
- Publications
- Online Writing Centers
- Secondary school writing centers
- Graduate student writing center administrators
- Writing Centers in Professional Contexts
- Links to writing and education resources on the web
- Annotated Bibliography of Peer Tutoring Resources
Mail lists
WCENTER
WCENTER is the mailing list for Writing Centers around the world. To subscribe to WCENTER, contact Kathleen Gillis.
WCENTER archives are available at here. Note: WCENTER is not an official organ of IWCA. IWCA does not moderate it or control the server on which it resides.
If you have forgotten your Wcenter password, follow these directions:
- Visit the Lyris website.
- Attempt to login with your email address that is on the list.
- Enter anything for a password.
- It will tell you that it is an incorrect password. At the bottom right of the box, there is a button to email the password, click on it.
- The system will send an email to the address you entered, which will contain a link to reset your password.
- Once your password has been rest, you will be able to get in.
SSWC-L
SSWC is a mailing list for secondary school writing center directors.
To subscribe to SSWC-L send an email to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU with “subscribe SSWC-L your name” in the body of the message.
Publications
Print publications
Boquet, Elizabeth H.Noise from the Writing Center. Logan, UT: Utah State P., 2001.
Farrell, Pamela B. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.
Harris, Muriel. Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference. Urbana, IL: NCTE Press, 1986.
Kent, Richard. Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2006.
Kinkead, Joyce A. and Jeanette C. Harris. Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies. Urbana, IL: NCTE Press, 1993.
Mullin, Joan A.and Ray Wallace. Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center, NCTE, 1994.
Nelson, Jane, and Kathy Evertz, eds. The Politics of Writing Centers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2001.
Olson, Gary A., ed. Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Urbana, IL: NCTE Press, 1984.
Pemberton, Michael A. and Joyce Kinkead, eds. The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship. Logan, UT: Utah State P., 2003.
Silk, Bobbie B., ed. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg, MA: IWCA Press, 1998.
Online Journals
- Google Scholar Beta (searches academic texts including some journals)
- BWe:Basic Writing e-Journal
- CCC Online
- Computers and Composition
- JAC Online
- A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
- Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing
- Praxis
- Technotes
- Teaching English in the Two-Year College
- Tribal College Journal
- Word Works
- Writing Center Journal
- Writing Lab Newsletter
- IWCA Update
Writing Center-related articles online
Reiss, Donna “From WAC to CCCAC: Writing Across the Curriculum Becomes Communication, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking (and Computers) Across the Curriculum”
Links about writing and education
- Alliance of Computers and Writing
- Aristotle’s Rhetoric
- Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
- Bibliography of Rhetoric and Professional Composition
- Collaborate! Collaborative Writing and Research in Higher Education
- Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database compiled by Lee Honeycutt
- Compile: An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition and rhetoric
- Conference on Basic Writing
- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Writing Project
- Two-year College English Association
- WAC Clearinghouse
- Writing Centers Research Project
- Writing Selves, Writing Society
- Writing Program Administration
Special Interests
Graduate Student Administrators
compiled by Karen Rowan
- A Thumbnail History of the IWCA Position Statement on Graduate Student Writing Center Administration
- IWCA Position Statement on Graduate Student Writing Center Administration (pdf)
- Bibliography
Secondary school writing centers
SSWC-L
SSWC is a mailing list for secondary school writing center directors.
To subscribe to SSWC-L send an email to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU with “subscribe SSWC-L your name” in the body of the message.
Print publications
Farrell, Pamela B. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.
Kent, Richard. Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2006.
Mullin, Joan A.and Ray Wallace. Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center, NCTE, 1994.
Silk, Bobbie B., ed. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg, MA: IWCA Press, 1998.
Online Resources
PortaPortal (Rich Kent’s Site): Resources for Secondary School Writing Centers
