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Everyday Writing Center

A Community of Practice

by (author) Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Carroll & Elizabeth H. Boquet

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2006
Category
Arts & Humanities
Recommended Age
0 to 18
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780874216561
    Publish Date
    Dec 2006
    List Price
    $33.95

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In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. They push themselves and their field toward deeper, more significant research, more self-conscious teaching.

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Editorial Reviews

The sophistication of its theoretical positions and the range of sources on which the authors draw position it on the vanguard of the field’s scholarship.
Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton

What impresses me most about their argument is not that writing centers need to stop being so rigid and time-bound and apolitical, but that writing centers occupy a unique space in the academy—one that might encourage authentic communities of learners, writers, peer tutors, faculty and staff. The Everyday Writing Center provides a way to think about this ambition.

Harvey Kail