Consultant Resources

Writing Center Studies

  • The SUNY Adirondack Center for Reading and Writing prides itself on its roles in writing center scholarship. Our student consultants experience in-depth course designs (English 263 and 265) along with a tutoring internship, while our faculty and professional consultants share their experience, collegiality, and professionalism.

     

  • Writing centers occupy an interesting space in academia. Every academic department utilizes writing in some aspect of its course designs or student expectations, so writing centers must be prepared for all disciplines. Every writer composes at his or her own unique level of competency, so writing centers must be skilled in coaching writers of all levels from any background of experience. Every instructor will assign a unique combination of assignments, so writing centers must also be prepared for any type of assignment at any stage of completion. Writing centers must meet an extraordinarily high number of student, instructor, and departmental needs, and these demands have led to deeper studies about how writing centers function and how to improve their effectiveness. In writing center scholarship, the distance between theory and application is extremely narrow; the theory or concept must be immediately and clearly applicable in the center itself.
     
  • NEWCAThe Northeastern Writing Center Association meets at an annual conference to discuss the evolving field of Writing Center Studies.

  • International Writing Center Association

CRW Handbook

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