Being Human in the Writing Center
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Peer tutors set themselves apart from machine writing tools simply by cultivating the qualities that make them distinctly human.
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Big Hands and Small Laptops: Reflecting on the Big Impact of Small Moments in Writing Center Work
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Taking the time to reflect on what may seem like small moments in the writing center reveals enduring pedagogical lessons.
Read MorePraxis Special Issue - CFP
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Praxis is now accepting submissions for a special issue titled "Rejected: Unspoken Controversies, Hyper-revision, and the Hidden Costs of Publication in Writing Center/Studies," guest-edited by Dr. Genie Giaimo. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Read MoreUsing Talk-to-Text Technology in the Writing Center
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Talk-to-text technology can be a beneficial tool to use in writing and writing centers, for it can save time, clarify thoughts, and capture an authentic voice.
Read MorePraxis 20.2: Influences in the Writing Center: From Micro to Macro
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Praxis’s Spring 2023: Influences in the Writing Center: From Micro to Macro is live.
Read MoreWhat I Do in the Writing Center: A First-Person Account of a Long Career in College Tutoring
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Working around tutors, but not as a tutor, at a college for many years has taught her a valuable lesson in tutoring: Don’t just correct a student’s work— minimalism in tutoring is the way to go.
Read MoreLaughter in the Writing Center: Creating Intimate Rhetorical Experiences in the Writing Center to Engage the Learning Process
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Finding opportunities to develop empathy through the shared affect of laughter can allow students to mitigate their fears and further help establish a connection in the tutoring session.
Read MoreSMART Practices for Centers in Communicating With Faculty by Sharmila Pixy Ferris and Kathy Waldron
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SMART practices include communicating strategically, through multiple media, directed at targeted faculty audiences, building on relationships with key faculty stakeholders, and providing resources using a timely just-in-time-just-in-need model.
Read MorePraxis 20.1: Growth in the Writing Center is here!
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Praxis’s Fall 22 issue: Growth in the Writing Center is live.
Read MorePraxis 19.3: Transformations in the Writing Center is here!
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Praxis’s Summer 22 regular issue: Transformations in the Writing Center is live.
Read MorePraxis 19.2: Guidance in the Writing Center is here!
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Praxis’s Spring 2022 regular issue: Guidance in the Writing Center is live.
Read MorePraxis 19.1: Have We Arrived Yet? is here!
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Praxis’s Special Issue, Have We Arrived Yet? Revisiting and Rethinking Responsibility in Writing Center Work: The Need for Transformative Listening and Mindfulness of Difference, is live.
Read MoreImagining the Decolonizing Writing Center: From Standard Edited English to Returning the Land
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Axis’s Special Issue, Imagining the Decolonizing Writing Center: From Standard Edited English to Returning the Land, is live.
Read MoreAxis: The Praxis Blog Special Issue Deadline Extended
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An announcement about the deadline extension for the the Axis: The Praxis Blog Special Issue on Imagining the Decolonizing Writing Center, Fall/Winter 2021.
Read MoreUpdate on Praxis Fall 2021 Special Issue
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An update on the Fall 2021 Praxis Special Issue.
Read MoreA Rhetorical Approach to Citations
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Ultimately, the goal of the questions is to help tutors consider how to move beyond a narrow conversation about a particular citation to a conversation about the purpose and significance of citations in writing. These questions can help tutors understand the concept of disciplinary communities, their choices of citation styles, and how citations can impact their ethos as a writer.
Read MoreCFP for Axis: The Praxis Blog Special Issue on Imagining the Decolonizing Writing Center, Fall/Winter 2021
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The editors at Praxis: A Writing Center Journal are excited to invite submissions for a special edition of posts to run during late winter 2022, reflecting writing centers’ collective scholarship and practice completed during the Fall of 2021. We welcome work from undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike.
Read MoreA Queer Writing Center: Part Two
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The inclusion of queer voices in the writing center is a discussion in need of repetition. While invisible, LGBTQ writers have enriched the world with their existence and deserve not only recognition in writing center discourse but also amplification. To achieve that feat, that celebration, a safe space for queer student-writers must be fostered in every college writing center.
Read MoreA Queer Writing Center: Part One
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As a queer student-writer myself, occasions where my identity within the academic domain of writing is discussed are all too rare. The nuances of multilingual writers and students with disabilities are ‘easier to spot’ in textbooks for writing center tutors, whereas, just as queer people have been invisible for centuries, LGBTQ individuals are lost in the table of contents, left wondering if they, if we have a place in writing center discourse at all.
Read More“What’s in a Name?”: Consultancy, Culture, and the “Tutor Jar”
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Are we tutors or consultants? Upon choosing one (consultant) over the other (tutor), our center has also dealt with the challenge of making that change permanent, a difficult task considering how engrained tutor had been in the lexicon of our writing center culture. When making any drastic change in culture, policy, or behavior, writing center administrators need to provide support strategies that can help staff members make that change effectively rather than simply issuing a mandate and expecting staff members to comply.
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