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in timbur's "multiliteracies, social futures, and writing centers" article, he brings up the use of different names to describe what a writing center does/seems like they do. "center for communication across the curriculum" was used as as example where the notion of "writing" is completely...

cari r
5 weeks 4 days ago

In class today we discussed the idea of multi-literacy. I think the increasing acceptance of the concept that there are other methods of communication besides written and verbal language is partially due to globalization. It is not as if multi-literacies have not existed until now, it is that...

Kate M
5 weeks 4 days ago

My first co-consultation was much more successful than I could have expected. I was worried that I would end up being an awkward third wheel to the other consultant and the client, but I was able to have a considerably constructive impact on the session. Our client was working on a piece for a...

kehuskyl
5 weeks 4 days ago

When thinking about what topic to cover in the first reading response, I started to look through the readings again. This made me realize how many different topics concerning writing that we have covered already this year. All of these topics made it hard to choose what to write about, but I...

Kimberly
5 weeks 4 days ago

So this podcast business has got me freaking out a little, I’m not going to lie.  I finally forced myself to sit down and think about it tonight and here’s what I have decided: it’s actually a really cool assignment.

elenbaasbarbra
5 weeks 4 days ago

After this week’s readings about different literacies, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what literacies I have in my own life. There are so many things that can’t be put down on paper but that require a very detailed knowledge about the subject. This got me thinking about how the Writing...

kburns
5 weeks 4 days ago

The article on Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers was pretty groovy. I had not really considered the Writing Center as being fundamentally connected to other literacies. I’m not very technologically minded, myself. I am barely literate in Microsoft Word. Anything more complicated than...

caleb
5 weeks 4 days ago

As you should know, we, the assessment committee, has been working on a four-pronged approach to assessment in the writing center. A plan designed to make the center a better place for consultants and clients; this plan will also give us systematically collected data to use with reports and...

Trixie Smith
5 weeks 5 days ago

For practice in WRA 395, we did peer review. The first one we did was like a traditional session: The two of us sat side by side, I read my paper out loud, and then we discussed it. However, for the second one, we logged into Second Life to do the session there. Now, I just want to add here that...

trumbl17
5 weeks 5 days ago

Although my first observation took place at the Writing Center in Bessey, scheduling conflicts led me to complete my second observation at the library. I’ve noticed that the library really comes alive at night from people studying, to people panicking with last minute homework assignments due...

kburns
6 weeks 4 days ago