A Writing Center Journal
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.
What technological options will be available for your Long Night event? What student involvement makes sense on your campus? What IT resources on campus can help your team feel comfortable as they provide remote support?
Read MoreAn introduction to our new Assistant Editor, Kiara Walker: “I’m looking forward to experiencing the writing center from a different perspective. I’m excited to read about writing center work and to see the contributions to this scholarship. I’m also looking forward to gaining some familiarity with how an academic journal runs.”
Read MorePraxis’s Summer 2020 issue: Well-Being in the Writing Center is live.
Read MoreRegardless of if you’re helping a student with content or grammar, it’s vital to praise the process, not the individual.
Read MoreA Long Night vision is nothing without a team willing to carry it out. This month we discuss choosing and communicating with potential collaborators. How should we decide who to work with and how to get things done?
Read MoreEvery month this Summer and Fall 2020, Axis brings you an installment in a six-part series on two writing centers’ experiences on two different campuses with two different demographics and their experiences as they took their Long Night Against Procrastination programs online.
Read MoreEvery month this Summer and Fall 2020, Axis brings you an installment in a six-part series on two writing centers’ experiences on two different campuses with two different demographics and their experiences as they took their Long Night Against Procrastination programs online.
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We here at Praxis are so proud and happy to present you all with our Spring 2020 issue!
17.2: Language & Learning in the Writing Center
As always, you can read the whole issue in PDF and individual articles here on our website.
The Spring 2020 semester has been an unprecedented one in many ways, on all of our campuses. We are so grateful for the hard work of our reviewers, copy-editors, authors, and the staff of the University Writing Center at UT-Austin and UT Library Services who have made it possible to continue publishing, even in these times. All of us are in the midst of uncertainty and change in our workplaces, as are the students we serve. We here at Praxis are glad to be among such good company as we navigate those changes, and we hope we can be a part of continuing the conversations about them.
We will be back this summer, both with our Summer 2020 issue and a new series of Axis blog posts, so stay tuned and stay safe!
“Upon learning about the nuances of scaffolding, I immediately associated this tool with a term that I and others are familiar with at Stateville: “building with someone.” I am not sure where this term is derived from, but it is commonly used when cellmates bond or engage in conversations to get to know each other better. I have discovered that being a Writing Advisor depends on the ability to communicate or converse effectively.”
Read MoreWe here at Praxis hope this post finds you all safe and well. After the University of Texas’s extended spring break, we will return next week with new Axis posts, our continued rolling submission cycle, and preparations for our Spring issue.
Read More“Community outreach is often based on the premise that all members of the community speak the same language, have the same writing or similar writing values and goals, and are a fresh slate for writing centers to inform them. Our experiences in the community have proven this premise incorrect. “
Read More“Now that I’ve been in my classroom teaching role for nearly two years, I regret not being more emphatic about just how much writing center work has positively influenced my classroom teaching.”
Read MorePraxis issue 17.1: Feedback & Input in the Writing Center is here!
Read MoreWhile writing tutors consistently employ ideals of betterment in their tutoring practice, the standard instructional focus of clinging to the ought and should fails to encourage an in-the-moment adaptational response that is, at times, necessary to implement in order to maximize academic success on behalf of the student.
Read MoreIn honor of Indigenous People’s Day this week, one of our Assistant Program Coordinators has composed the following land acknowledgment to be posted in our writing center space. We here at Praxis wanted to share it to our virtual space, as well.
Read MoreWelcome to Praxis Redesign: A work in Progress
Read More“While most Writing Center literature assumes that undergraduate tutors are on “our” side and that it is outsiders who doubt our methods, my experience has given me a different perspective and made me consider how Writing Center practitioners might react when we face resistance from within.”
Read MoreAn introduction to our new Assistant Editor, Fiza Mairaj: “I got to work with a diverse group of students and learned the unique challenges each student faces despite their first language or citizenship status. Praxis is another way for me to understand not only the writing center theories and pedagogy but also the world of academic writing and publishing.”
Read MoreOur Summer 2019 Issue, “Breaking Down & Building Up in the Writing Center” is here!
Read MoreOne of our editors reflects on the physical construction in our University Writing Center space, and the construction we are asking students to do all the time.
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