Venn and the Art of Writing Instruction
By Shifra Sharlin
Category: Higher Education
A New WAC Faculty Sourcebook for a New Academic Year
By Bradley Hughes Greetings from a new academic year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Writing Center! We had a very busy and productive summer of 2018. The Writing Center was open for 12 weeks this summer, offering consultations, workshops, and writing groups for hundreds of undergraduate- and graduate-student writers. The summer center was staffed by […]
Challenging Ableism and Institutional Barriers Through Writing Center Work
By Brenna Swift –
Reading in the Writing Center, Beyond the One-on-One Session
By Angela J. Zito – With recent publications like the NCTE’s Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (2018), What is College Reading? of the WAC Clearing House (2017), and Indiana UP’s Critical Reading in Higher Education (2015), it seems that reading in colleges and universities is gaining a good deal of new critical […]
Writing Center Outreach and Leading from the Middle
By Angela J. Zito Last week, the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network held its annual conference in Montreal, Quebec, where the keynote speaker Randy Bass called upon all of us in attendance (and the programs and institutions we represented) to help steer higher education in the direction of increasingly inclusive and integrated learning by […]
Which Shoes Should You Choose? A Meditation on Indecisiveness in Writing
By Zach Marshall
Peer Tutoring and the Serious Work of Undergraduate Scholarship
By Rachel Herzl-Betz Rachel Herzl-Betz is an Assistant Director of the Writing Fellows Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been a tutor and administrator since 2012. She is also a PhD candidate in Literary Studies, with a focus on Victorian Literature and Disability Studies. I’ve always been a fan of academic conferences. At their best, […]
Reflecting on Processes: Building and Tutoring
By KimMarie Cole, State University of New York at Fredonia My thanks to Brad Hughes for the invitation and opportunity to share these ideas with you and to my colleague Heather McEntarfer who provided helpful comments and insights on early drafts of this post. My family and I are building a house. For more than […]
Outreach By Design
By Rachel Herzl-Betz Rachel Herzl-Betz is the T.A. Coordinator of Outreach for the Writing Center at UW-Madison, where she has been a tutor since 2012. She is also a PhD candidate in Literary Studies, with a focus on Victorian Literature, Disability Studies, and Rhetoric. This August, when I began my work as the Outreach Coordinator […]
Somewhere beyond the lake: Writing across our curriculum and beyond
by Stephanie White Stephanie White just completed her two-year term as Assistant Director of the program in Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Last semester, the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program here at UW–Madison was thrilled to continue building our partnership with the university’s Delta program. Delta’s mission is to encourage […]