Re: New thread

[Muriel Harris <harrism@omni.cc.purdue.edu>]

Sonja, Pat McQueeney's list of good readings was a bit modest since
she didn't mention her own article (an excellent one!) that will
appear, I hope, by October in the Writing Lab Newsletter. She offers
some compelling reasons for why a WAC program needs a writing center,
and the focus of the article is how to frame a proposal for a writing
center. Pat, care to offer any more details (or should we keep 'em all
in suspense until October)?  ;-)

Mickey (who gets to be first reader of all the great articles sent to
the newsletter)



> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 


-- 
Mickey Harris
harrism@omni.cc.purdue.edu