Essays about faculty, student, and administrator misperceptions are nearly as old as Writing
Center studies itself. Often these essays appear to assume that the problem is one of …

Writing centers are often the subject of misunderstanding. Commonly, students and
professors treat the writing center as a place to fix “broken” essays (Murphy & Sherwood …

There are writing centers at almost every college and university in the United States, and
there is an emerging body of professional discourse, research, and writing about them. The …

Book description: There are writing centers at almost every college and university in the
United States, and there is an emerging body of professional discourse, research, and …

Stephen North's 1984 article,“The Idea of a Writing Center,” highlighted the struggle writing
centers face with regard to misperceptions about their function and purpose. North …

Writing center scholarship and assessment have long incorporated quantitative, empirical,
and mixed methods approaches to research and data collection, even if Writing Center …

Writing center history demonstrates that centers have long fought marginalization in the
academy while simultaneously providing some of its most innovative instruction. As often the …

Gillespie, Paula, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown, and Byron Stay, Eds. Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum, 2,002, by Carol Peterson Haviland The editors of this long-awaited volume have …

This article discusses approaches and attitudes toward writing center outreach amid
misconceptions surrounding writing centers across many college campuses. Through the …