Re: Writing Center and WAC

[sun.westga.edu@westga.edu (Sonya Bagby)]

Oh, yes, and the administrators love to see our little mugs in the paper or
on tv.  Those pr ploys help not only our attendance, but our budget in
little ways.
sonja>


I'll be following this strand on writing centers and WAC with great
>interest as our Writing Lab is part of our English Dept., in a
>university with no WAC program. Therefore, I'm the one who fields
>calls from faculty around the university who want some support for
>writing they'd want to assign, and I have yet to get any clear sense
>from our administration as to whether this is an appropriate use of
>our resources. Sure, we gladly work with students writing in any
>field, and I help (when asked) with faculty who are interested in
>coordinating their assignments with the Writing Lab (as that's a great
>way to help them write effective assignments). But I do wonder how
>many of us do this sort of informal WAC work where there is no WAC
>program.
>
>For those of you who do help with writing in various
>disciplines in this informal way, do you publicize that help?
>In a large, decentralized university, we don't do mass mailings to
>gadzillions of faculty and TAs who teach the gadzillions of courses
>(can't stretch our budget THAT far). But I would like to make contact
>with interested faculty in some way. Workshops through our Center for
>Instructional Services don't get a heavy turnout for any of their
>scheduled events, so I'm not sure what to do, and I'm even less sure
>whether I should be looking for additional ways to stretch our tight
>resources. Yet it seems appropriate to all of us in the Lab to be a
>campus service and to help the students outside of our large writing
>program who manage to find us. If this sounds familiar to you, what do
>you do? How do you publicly reach out across the campus? What kinds of
>feedback from administrators do you get, if any?
>
>--
>Mickey Harris
>harrism@omni.cc.purdue.edu

Sonja S. Bagby
Coordinator, Writing Center
Humanities #210
Department of English and Philosophy
State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118-2200
sbagby@westga.edu
writing@westga.edu