Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice - Softcover

Anne Ellen Geller; Michele Eodice; Frankie Condon; Meg Carroll; Elizabeth Boquet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874216567 ISBN 13: 9780874216561

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. They push themselves and their field toward deeper, more significant research, more self-conscious teaching.

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Review

The sophistication of its theoretical positions and the range of sources on which the authors draw position it on the vanguard of the field’s scholarship. 

Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton

What impresses me most about their argument is not that writing centers need to stop being so rigid and time-bound and apolitical, but that writing centers occupy a unique space in the academy—one that might encourage authentic communities of learners, writers, peer tutors, faculty and staff. The Everyday Writing Center provides a way to think about this ambition.

Harvey Kail

Edition details

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0874216567
• ISBN 13: 9780874216561
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154