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“Theme From English B”

The Writing Center as A Site of

Transformation

Pre-Conference Workshop, March 19, 2003

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Workshop W.10

9:00- 9:15 Welcome and Introductions

Co-Chairs

Luke Niiler, University of Texas at Tyler

Joseph Zeppetello, Marist College

9:15-10:45 Concurrent Sessions One

A.

“Triad of Trust: Tutors, Students, and Faculty”

Z. Z. Lehmberg, Rick Hunter, Elizabeth Raisanen,

Brad Chaimson, and Jennifer Erkkila will propose

that the so-called Bakhtinian exchange is most

present and dynamic in the writing center. Dorothy

Ross, Anne Colwell, Susan Bernadzikowski, and

Barbara Christensen discuss a faculty-tutor

partnership program that encourages collaboration

and exchange among tutors, students and classroom

teachers.

B.

“The Good News and the Better News”

Roberta Buck and Mary Wislocki will present

strategies for transforming tutees’ writing through

strength-based conference models. Participants will

identify and use the language of strengths in a

workshop setting.

C.

Paper”

“Transformation and the Graduate Student

Melissa Nicolas, Mark Letcher, Doug Dangler,

Akhila Ramnarayan, Thomas Savas and Haivan

Hongl will suggest transformative strategies for

tutoring graduate clients. Participants will workshop

dissertation excerpts and writing samples from nonnative

speakers.

D

at Writing Centers”

. “Intercenter Tutor Conversations: Going Public

Vainis Aleksa, Eva Bednarowicz, and Julie Bokser

consider how tutor publications facilitate

conversation and collaboration both within and

among proximate writing centers.

E.

Reciprocally”

“The Cultures of Englishes: Coloring Our Coats

Carol Peterson Haviland, Mary Boland, Andrea

Davis, Kathy Hansler, Judy Holiday, Annie Knight,

Joanne Maestre, Rebecca Kirk, Marsh explore the

ways the students we tutor influence our reading and

writing, as well as the ways contexts and

geographies influence our social construction.

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00- 12:30 Concurrent Sessions Two

A.

Writing Centers: What We Can Learn

Deborah H. Burns, Kathleen Shine Cain, and

Michael J. Rossi will share the results of an outreach

program that profoundly altered the surrounding

community and the college community. E. Stone

Shiflet will present on the benefits of centering

writing communities in writing centers.

B.

“Developing Writing Communities Beyond.”“Training Tutors to Tutor ESL Students”

Gilda Teixido, Barbara Gaal Lutz, and Dee Baer will

workshop information on three common areas of

concern about tutor training regarding ESL students.

C.

Students”

“New Views on LD, ADD and Special Needs

Gillian Steinberg will simulate the classroom

experience of LD and ADD students by reproducing

altered environments and sharing doctored

assignments with workshop participants. James A.

Inman, Jennifer Ahern and Donna N. Sewell will

discuss working with student athletes, creative

writers, and returning-adult students.

D.

Transforming Writing Center Outreach and Internal

Development”

“Democratic Collaborations: Strategies for

Tiffany Rousculp and Catherine Lund will share the

democratic collaborative principles that ground the

SLCC Community Writing Center in both its

outreach programs and internal development.

Participants will then apply these principles to their

own writing center internal and external goals in

guided small-group workshop activities.

E

Projects”

. “Transforming Knowledge: Practices and

Linda S. Bergmann, Jessica Clark, Serkan Gorkemli,

Debrah Huffman, and Deb Rankin will lead small

group discussions considering how writing centers

can transform the personal and local knowledge that

tutors gain from working with students into ongoing,

institutionalized writing center practices and

projects.

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30- 3:00 Concurrent Sessions Three

A.

Landscape”

“A Room With Views: Transforming the Writing

Kim Abels, Vicki Russell and Kelly Benhase

consider the ‘panoramic’ view writing centers have

of the university, and discuss the pedagogical and

institutional transformations writing centers can

initiate.

B. “

Writing Centers as Transformative Sites”

Judy Artz, Elaine Hays, and Shiva Tavana will lead

participants in ways to identify how tutorials

transform students and methods for informing

administrators and faculty of these transformations.

C.

Themes, and Conferences: Mapping the Dialogue”

“Themes for English B, Cross Curricular

Gail Jacky and Brad Peters will draw on the work of

Bakhtin to provide tools for identifying, analyzing

and transforming problematic dialogues that

influence the position of the writing center in the

university and community. Shareen Grogan

explores how differing student and tutor

expectations can be negotiated in conferences by

providing close readings of conference transcripts

and tutor commentary.

D.

Focus”

“Transforming the Future, Transforming our

Darsie Bowden presents a model of a utopian

writing center, one that has been designed

collaboratively by tutors, administrators and

students. Linda Cullum, Alice D’Amore and

Adriane Golden share the results of a series of focusgroup

interviews with writing center users, nonusers,

skeptics and supporters.

E. Sabrina Peters Whitehead will examine how

information design theories and practices;

specifically usability studies, can inform OWL

development.

3:00- 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:45 Concurrent Sessions Four

A.

Pedagogy and Tutor Self-Assessment”

“Creating Understanding: Inquiry-Based

Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber summarizes the results of

incorporating inquiry-based pedagogy as a means for

tutors to question theory and create new knowledge.

Allison Holland covers the result of a yearlong

survey, which demonstrates how qualitative and

quantitative tutor self-assessments improve tutoring.

B.

Cartographies”

“Transformation through Triangulation and

Harry Denny and Patricia Stephens will show how

structured content analysis of diagnostic writing

samples have guided workshop development and

created more faculty awareness of writing center

practice. Susan Delagrange, Melissa Ianetta, Jason

Palmeri, and Tara Pauliny will lead participants in

brainstorming the persuasion inherent to writing

center space, and in constructing physical, virtual

and theoretical maps of writing centers.

C.

the Real World

Drawing on their work with high school seniors in a

writing center, Pamela Childers and Michael Lowry

will share cross-disciplinary activities that will

improve the writing, thinking and learning of

college-preparatory students.

D.

and at a Distance”

“Preparing Students for Writing in College and”“Virtual Transformations: Cold Fusion, Online

Meg Triplett will demonstrate how common server

technology can allow computers to interactively and

securely store client information in an Access

database. Beth L. Hewett and Christa Ehmann will

discuss and present strategies for more effective

online tutor training.

E

into the Writing Center”

. “Time to Play: Inviting New Worlds of Discourse

Scott L. Miller, Kevin C. Dvorak and Erin Goldin

will model a playshop, sharing how highly playful

meetings can help tutees advance their work in

fiction and poetry. Marcy Trianosky, Sonja Bagby

and Lisa Zimmerman will use role-playing and

freewriting to discover how directors and tutors

interact to transform tutoring practice.

4:45- 5:00 Group Wrap-Up


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