Axis: the Praxis blog

What happens when we write? Why do we teach writing the way we do? How does writing education engage with questions of race, gender, accessibility, and cultural difference? How does the writing center function as an interdisciplinary space?

Axis extends the writing center conversation from Praxis, our peer reviewed scholarly journal, into a public forum. Exploratory, experimental, and informative, the blog speaks to questions on the cutting edge of writing center theory and practice. Axis features writing from undergraduate and graduate educators at the University of Texas at Austin, and guest writers from universities across the United States.

We here at Praxis are proud to present our Summer 2022 regular issue, available as a PDF and web-based individual articles as always, open-access, on our website.

As Co-Editors of writing center scholarship, we have perceived a pointed effort on the part of you, our fellow collaborators, to present the many changes our writing centers have undergone and are undergoing with relation to how we serve writers in our respective institutions. The pieces collected in this issue address transformations driven by issues ranging from representation to performance and connection in a post-pandemic society. In this issue, we hope you find support and precedent for your own centers even as you undergo personal periods of transition.

Finally, we here at Praxis want to moment to thank our readers and our most brilliant and diligent review board for their continued support. We’re all so grateful to be here with the writing center community, and we thank you all for being part of it, too.