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["Writing Consulting: Faculty Resources" <writingc@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Sonja Bagby wrote:

> Hello, everyone:
> I am researching the writing center's place in WAC. Can some of you lead me
> to books, articles, journals, etc. to assist me in my research?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sonja Bagby
> 
> Sonja S. Bagby
> Writing Center Coordinator
> Department of English
> State University of West Georgia
> Carrollton, GA 30118
> sbagby@westga.edu
> 770-830-2258
> 
> 
> 


Landmark Essays on Writing Centers has two articles.  Writing
Across the Curriculum:  A Guide to Developing Programs (McLeod and
Soven) contains "The Writing Center and Tutoring in WAC Programs"
by Muriel Harris.  The current LLAD has articles about various WAC
programs, some of which include writing center connections.

Another article that I think raises very important issues is by Michael
Pemberton in Writing Center Journal (unfortunately, I don't have the
cite--maybe someone can help).  This one is worth a look because he gets
at the generic versus discipline-specific approaches. At the last MWCA
conference, the suggestion was made that WAC folks deal with writing to
learn only, which simply is not the case just as it's not the case that
all WAC programs operate from a writing-intensive model. Pemberton gets at
the multiple motives for dealing with writing in a useful way.

NWCA has a session on Wr. Ctr to WAC and WAC to Wr. Ctr. Our office will
provide one of three presentations in this session.  Because we want to
discuss the relationships, we've elected to keep our presentation very
short and to put our full paper on our web site instead (in early
September). We're interested in the discussion of the relationship between
the two because we're a well established WAC service which has operated
without a WI model and without a writing center for 12 years.  We have
argued for the need for a writing center in order to promote faculty's
incorporation of WAC.  Now the challenge will be how to develop a writing
center and make it independent of us without neglecting our own work.

Given the diversity in WAC (many of us work in the disciplines and
outside the writing-intensive model), you might find the program from the
last WAC conference helpful.  The abstracts could be a gold-mine of
contacts for you.  Maybe someone can help with the best person to contact
for that (Citadel, Clemson, and Charleston were co-sponsors). I also
recommend Barbara Walvoord's "The Future of WAC" in CE a year ago as a
thoughtful article on what further alliances might be.


Pat McQueeney
Writing Consulting:  Faculty Resources
KU's Writing Across the Curriculum Service
(913) 864-4232
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~writingc/index.html