Tracing a history of Writing Center Studies is complicated by a central question: is “writing center” a place or a method? In tracing the history of writing centers, we can see that the answer to this question oscillates during different times and often it is actually both simultaneously. Early incarnations of writing centers in the…
Writing Instructor & Scholar
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PAB Entry 1: Historical Perspectives
Boquet, E. H. (1999). “Our little secret”: A history of writing centers, pre- to post-open admissions. College Composition and Communication, 50 (3), 463-483. In this essay, Boquet traces the history of writing centers with the central question: are they a place or a method? Boquet suggests that the early 20th century incarnations of writing centers,…
New Direction
Well, my great idea to keep a blog chronicling my adventures as an adjunct didn’t quite work out. I never actually had time to blog. I had lots of ideas for posts based on what I was experiencing, but I lacked the time and energy to put pen to paper, so to speak. Perhaps that’s…
That point in the semester
Currently I am teaching two summer courses. Both are technically new courses for me. One is the second in a series of two composition courses required at the community college I teach at. The other is half of a section of an 8 credit developmental reading and writing course that I am teaching with a reading…
