The Longman Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice
by Barnett, Robert W.; Blumner, Jacob SEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-04-27
Publisher(s): Pearson
Other versions by this Author
List Price: $119.99
Buy New
Usually Ships in 2-3 Business Days
$119.87
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
Used Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
eTextbook
We're Sorry
Not Available
How Marketplace Works:
- This item is offered by an independent seller and not shipped from our warehouse
- Item details like edition and cover design may differ from our description; see seller's comments before ordering.
- Sellers much confirm and ship within two business days; otherwise, the order will be cancelled and refunded.
- Marketplace purchases cannot be returned to eCampus.com. Contact the seller directly for inquiries; if no response within two days, contact customer service.
- Additional shipping costs apply to Marketplace purchases. Review shipping costs at checkout.
Summary
The Longman Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practiceoffers, in unparalleled breadth and depth, the major scholarship on writing centers. This up-to-date resource for students, instructors, and scholars anthologizes essays on all major areas of interest to writing center theorists and practitioners. Seven sections provide a comprehensive view of writing centers: history, progress, theorizing the writing center, defining the writing center's place, writing-across-the curriculum, the practice of tutoring, cultural issues, and technology.
Table of Contents
| All sections begin with "Introduction." | |
| Forward by Christina Murphy | |
| Preface | |
| A History Of Writing Centers: Looking In The Rearview Mirror | |
| The Writing Clinic and the Writing Laboratory | |
| Early Writing Centers: Toward a History | |
| Writing Centers: A Long View | |
| The National Writing Center as Mooring: A Personal History of the First Decade | |
| Our Little Secret: A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions | |
| "The Idea Of A Writing Center": Building A Theoretical Foundation | |
| The Idea of a Writing Center | |
| Revisiting 'The Idea of a Writing Center.' | |
| Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center | |
| Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies | |
| The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory | |
| Theorizing the Writing Center: An Uneasy Task | |
| The Unpromising Future of Writing Centers | |
| Defining The Writing Center'S Place: Administrative and Institutional Issues | |
| Solutions and Trade-Offs in Writing Center Administration | |
| What Should the Relationship Be between the Writing Center and the Writing Program | |
| Mending the Damaged Path: How to Avoid Conflict of Expectations When Setting Up a Writing Center | |
| Perceptions, Realities, and Possibilities: Central Administration and Writing Centers | |
| Redefining Our Existence: An Argument for Short- and Long-Term Goals and Objectives | |
| The Process Of Tutoring: Connecting Theory and Practice | |
| Peer Tutoring and the `Conversation of Mankind.' | |
| Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work | |
| A Critique of Pure Tutoring | |
| Are Writing Centers Ethical? | |
| Look Back and Say `So What': The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor | |
| Collaboration Is Not Collaboration Is Not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials vs. Peer-Response Groups | |
| Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms | |
| Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well | |
| The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference | |
| Difficult Clients and Tutor Dependency: Helping the Overly Dependent Clients Become More Independent Writers | |
| An Ongoing Tutor-Training Program | |
| Welcoming Diversity: Multiple Cultures In The Writing Center | |
| Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers | |
| 'Whispers of Coming and Going': Lessons From Fannie | |
| Rethinking Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer | |
| Learning Disabilities in the Writing Center | |
| Cultural Diversity in the Writing Center: Defining Ourselves and Our Challenges | |
| Writing Centers and Writing Across The Curriculum: A Symbiotic Relationship? | |
| The Writing Center's Role in the Writing across the Curriculum Program: Theory and Practice | |
| Independence and Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers | |
| The Last Best Place for Writing across the Curriculum: The Writing Center | |
| A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center | |
| Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection | |
| Writing Centers as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change | |
| Beyond The Physical Space: Technology In The Writing Center | |
| Straddling the Virtual Fence | |
| Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History | |
| Online Writing Labs (OWLS): A Taxonomy of Options | |
| From Place to Space: Perceptual Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center | |
| Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring | |
| Information Literacy and the Writing Center | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
Digital License
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.
More details can be found here.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.