A New Collaboration: Welcoming a High School Writing Center to UW-Madison
By Mike Haen and Brenna Swift –
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Medieval Monks Wrote in Their Books and So Can You
By Leah Pope Parker—We learn to write by imitating, by reading, and by thinking about the construction of texts we aim to emulate. It is commonly understood among teachers of writing that learning to write—at a more sophisticated level, in a different style, in a new genre—requires writers to read models for the kind of writing that they want to produce. This is why we […]
The Power of Open
By Katie Lynch – Upon graduating from UW-Madison with my Ph.D. in Literary Studies in 2010, I took a tenure-track position at Rockland Community College (RCC), one of the 64 institutions in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. My specific job description combined the teaching of writing and literature with a partial course release […]
The Benefits of a Collaboration Between a Writing Center and a Student Journal
By Taryn Okuma – In Spring 2015 I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and saw that John Tiedemann (a fellow UW-Madison alum) had shared a link for WRIT Large, a student publication from the Writing Program at the University of Denver. John is a teacher whom I’ve always admired and his enthusiasm for his […]
Getting to the Roots of L2 Writer Experiences
By Molly Rentscher and Vicki Kennell –
A Writer in Pain: Notes Toward a Writing Center Ethics of Care
By Amy Gaeta – As a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in English, writing center tutor and student, I love to write. Even if it was not part of my job, like many people reading this blog, the writing process is where I continue to find myself. During my past two years of working in the writing […]
Writing for Social Justice: Writer-Activists Share Their Work
By Mia Alafaireet and Nancy Linh Karls, featuring Jesus Galvan, Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, Tiffany Lee, and Amy Salinas Westmoreland –
Writing with Custodians: Community Writing Center Work within the University
By Calley Marotta – How can a university-sponsored community writing center serve those whom the university does not reach? This is a question community writing centers consistently try to answer by designing writing support for those who live and work beyond the university’s walls (Rousculp 2014).(1) By doing so, they seek to bridge a gap […]
Venn and the Art of Writing Instruction
By Shifra Sharlin –
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 […]