Re: your mail

[Karen Vaught-Alexander <karenva@uofport.edu>]

We have the student-client set the agenda of the conference as much as 
possible. Because we are a WAC-based center, the next concern deals with 
discipinary thinking and conventions including individual voice as 
appropriate within the disciplinary conventions and contexts.

One issue often comes up-- seeing a way of knowing and researching as a 
mere form or formula, i.e., APA research not just a translation of 
bibliographic info from a MLA set-up or format to an APA. With WAC-based 
writing assistants, the mentoring in the thinking of the field is so 
useful for student-clients who are novices in understanding the many voices 
and ways of knowing of academic fields.
 
Only after other stuff in place, do we focus on conventions.

Karen Vaught-Alexander
University of Portland
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jennifer Dana wrote:

> To:  all writing center list members
> 
> I was wondering if, in your writing centers, do you concentrate more on
> the form or grammar of a piece or how its content brings out the voice of
> the student.
> 
> Thanks for any responses
> 
> Jenny
> 
>