Writing center research extending the conversation / edited by Paula Gillespie ... [et al.].

Other author Gillespie, Paula.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates Publishers,
Descriptionxxix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Writing Centers as Sites of Self-Reflective Inquiry -- 1 The Call to Research: Early Representations of Writing -- Center Research -- Alice Gillam -- 2 Disciplinary Action: Writing Center Work and the Making -- of a Researcher -- Elizabeth Boquet -- 3 Beyond the House of Lore: Wcenter as Research Site -- Paula Gillespie -- Insider as Outsider: Participant Observation as Writing -- Center Research -- Neal Lerner -- II. Writing Centers as Sites of Institutional Critique -- and Contextual Inquiry -- Writing Center Administration: Making Local, Institutional -- Knlowledge in Our Writing Centers -- Muriel Harris -- 6 Reading Our Own Words: Rhetorical Analysis and the -- Institutional Discourse of Writing Centers -- Peter Carino -- 7 Student-Centered Assessment Research in the Writing Center I -- Jon Olson, DawnJ. Moyer, and Adelia Falda -- 8 Capturing Complexity: Using Grounded Theory to Study -- Writing Centers -- Joyce Magnotto Neff -- 9 The Portfolio Project: Sharing Our Stories -- Sharon Thomas, Julie Bevins, and Mary Ann Crawford -- 10 Computer Literacies and the Roles of the Writing Center -- Danielle DeVoss -- III Writing Centers as Sites of Inquiry Into Practice -- 11 Seeing Practice Through Their Eyes: Reflection as Teacher -- Kathleen Blake Yancey -- 12 The Return of the Suppressed: Tutoring Stories in a -- Transitional Space -- Nancy Welch -- 13 The Subject is Literacy: General Education and the Dialectics -- of Power and Resistance in the Writing Center -- Judith Rodby -- 14 Why Feminists Make Better Tutors: Gender and Disciplinary -- Expertise in a Curriculum-Based Tutoring Program -- Jean Marie Lutes -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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LCCN 2001023049
ISBN080583446X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0805834478 (pbk. : alk. paper)