Journal article
Keynote: Notions of Writing Center Community and Some Challenges to Them
The Writing center journal, Vol.41(2), 7
11/17/2023
DOI: 10.7771/2832-9414.2021
Abstract
It is crucial for writing center professionals who discuss community to ask ourselves what we mean by the term as applied to writing centers. In this keynote, I explore various notions of community that are influenced by writing center growth, expansion, and complexity, especially in relation to Iowa’s writing center. After relating a personal story about our new tutors’ traditional notion of community and an account of our own center’s expansion and growing complexity over the decades, which challenges their traditional notion, I discuss other obstacles to community, bringing in the critiques of writing center scholars. Finally, I synthesize what I consider to be the most important bases on which to build writing center community today, focusing on the special I-Thou relationships writing center tutors form with students.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Keynote: Notions of Writing Center Community and Some Challenges to Them
- Creators
- Carol Severino
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Writing center journal, Vol.41(2), 7
- DOI
- 10.7771/2832-9414.2021
- ISSN
- 2832-9414
- eISSN
- 2832-9414
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/17/2023
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984539653502771
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