Landmark Essays in Contemporary Writing Center Studies

Neal Lerner is professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on writing, literacy, teaching/tutoring writing, and creative nonfiction. Paula Gillespie is associate professor emerita of English at Florida International University, where she directed the Center for Excellence in Writing.

Part 1: Writing Center History 1. Talking in the Middle: Why Writers Need Writing Tutors 2. "Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions 3. Reconsiderations: After "The Idea of a Writing Center" Part 2: Critical Perspectives on Current Practices 4. Centering Difference: Student Agency and the Limits of "Comfortable" Collaboration 5. Breathing Lessons or Collaboration Is . . . 6. Avoiding Appropriation 7. Queering the Writing Center 8. Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race 9. Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces 10. Unmaking Gringo-Centers Part 3: Writing Center Research 11. Tick-Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center 12. What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project 13. Theory In/To Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center 14. Decisions . . . Decisions: Who Chooses to Use the Writing Center? Part 4: Writing Centers in New Spaces 15. Writing Fellows as WAC Change Agents: Changing What? Changing Whom? Changing How? 16. When the Community Writes: Re-envisioning the SLCC DiverseCity Writing Series 17. "We’re All in This Thing Together": An Equitable and Flexible Approach to Language Diversity in the Stellenbosch University Writing Lab 18. Situation Definition and the Online Synchronous Writing Conference