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Author: Leigh Elion

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Teaching in an Emergency: Writing Centers, Wildfires, and What We Take With Us


UW-Madison Writing Center Alumni Voices

By Leigh Elion  This blog post was supposed to be published on December 11, 2017. Having just received my PhD from UW-Madison and moved on to my first full-time academic appointment, I’d planned to use this space to reflect on all of the Writing Center teaching I’d done at UW, remember the hundreds of students […]

January 23, 2018

The Bicameral Writing Mind: Writing Tutors as Writers


Graduate Students, Peer Tutoring, Student Voices, Tutorial Talk and Methods, Writing Center Theory

By Leigh Elion – I’m angry with Paul Silvia. Don’t get me wrong. He seems like a very nice person. When he came to UW-Madison in 2013 to speak with our Writing Center tutors, he was funny, generous, and insightful. Silvia is a psychology professor at UNC-Greensboro. His book, How to Write a Lot, offers […]

December 6, 2016

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Reflections on writing center practice, research, and theory from the students, staff, alumni, and friends of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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