ABSTRACT
Writing Centers at the Center of Change looks at how eleven centers, internationally, adapted to change at their institutions, during a decade when their very success has become a valued commodity in a larger struggle for resources on many campuses.
Bringing together both US and international perspectives, this volume offers solutions for adapting to change in the world of writing centers, ranging from the logistical to the pedagogical, and even to the existential. Each author discusses the origins, appropriate responses, and partners to seek when change comes from within a school or outside it. Chapters document new programs being formed under changing circumstances, and suggest ways to navigate professional or pedagogical changes that may undermine the hard work of more than four decades of writing-center professionals.
The book’s audience includes writing center and learning-commons administrators, university librarians, deans, department chairs affiliated with writing centers. It will also be useful for graduate students in composition, rhetoric, and academic writing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
New or Reimagined Spaces
chapter 1|21 pages
Sharing Space and Finding Common Ground
chapter 2|22 pages
The Writing Center Speaks Up
part II|71 pages
New Missions
chapter 4|21 pages
The Writing Center in the Writing Program
chapter 7|14 pages
Making Good on the Promise
part III|64 pages
Contested Missions, Contested Spaces