In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers
present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In …

Originally published in a 1984 issue of College English, Stephen North's article “The Idea of
a Writing Center” has over the years been much cited in writing center scholarship. Even so …

Queerly Centered explores writing center administration and queer identity, showcasing
LGBTQA labor undertaken but not previously acknowledged or documented in the field's …

This article traces authorship and citation patterns in The Writing Center Journal (WCJ) from
1980 to 2009, a data set that consists of 241 WCJ articles containing 4,095 total citations …

It may be hard to believe, but this report has been over ten years in the making. Two of us—
Rebecca and Karen—became interested in issues of writing centers and diversity in 2005 …

Out in the Center explores the personal struggles of tutors, faculty, and administrators in
writing center communities as they negotiate the interplay between public controversies and …

This collection helps students and researchers understand the foundations of writing center
studies in order to make sound decisions about the types of methods and theoretical lenses …

In my experience as a writing consultant, the writing center atmosphere Denny describes,
and the collaboration it cultivates, results in a close community of consultants, staff, and …

In their 2009 article “The Queer Turn in Composition Studies: Reviewing and Assessing an
Emerging Scholarship,” Jonathan Alexander and David Wallace describe the state of …

Tutor reports on writing consultations are seemingly indigenous to writing center culture, yet
their audiences and functions are, to borrow a phrase from Muriel Harris," as varied as the …