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Title Writing centers and writing across the curriculum programs : building interdisciplinary partnerships / edited by Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description xiii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Series Contributions to the study of education, 0196-707X ; no. 73
Contributions to the study of education ; no. 73
Contents Introduction / Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner -- 1. The WAC/Writing Center Partnership: Creating a Campus-wide Writing Environment / Robert W. Barnett and Lois M. Rosen -- 2. The Writing Center as Ambassador Plenipotentiary in a Developing WAC Program / Scott Johnston and Bruce W. Speck -- 3. Authority and Initiation: Preparing Students for Discipline-specific Language Conventions / Jacob S. Blumner -- 4. Neither Missionaries Nor Colonists Nor Handmaidens: What Writing Tutors Can Teach WAC Faculty about Inquiry / Carol Peterson Haviland, Sherry Green and Barbara Kime Shields [et al.] -- 5. Finding Common Ground When WAC Writing Center Directors Meet Neurotic Pride / Mark L. Waldo and Maria Madruga -- 6. When a Writing Center Undertakes a Writing Fellows Program / Richard Leahy -- 7. A Writing Center without a WAC Program: The De Facto WAC Center/Writing Center / Muriel Harris -- 8. Writing Centers as WAC Centers: An Evolving Model / Peshe C. Kuriloff
9. Situating Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs in the Academy: Creating Partnerships for Change with Organizational Development Theory / Karen Vaught-Alexander -- 10. Creating a Virtual Space: The Role of the Web in Forging Writing Center/WAC Connections / Irene L. Clark -- 11. Writing Centers/WAC in Pharmacy Education: A Changing Prescription / Eric Hobson and Neal Lerner -- 12. Writing Center or Experimental Center for Faculty Research, Discovery, and Risk Taking? / Pamela B. Childers -- 13. Writing Centers and WAC Programs as Infostructures: Relocating Practice within Futurist Theories of Social Change / Christina Murphy and Joe Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Writing centers.
Author Barnett, Robert W., 1964-
Blumner, Jacob S., 1968-
LC no. 98008236
ISBN 0313306990 (alk. paper)