A Review of Writing Centers: Theory and Administration

Abstract

Writing center theory: Peer tutoring and the ''Conversation mankind'' / Kenneth A. Bruffee -- Laboratory writing centers: Restoring authority to writers / Tilly Warnock; John Warnock -- Writing center research: Testing our assumptions / Stephen M. North -- Philosophical perspective on writing centers and the teaching of writing / Lil Brannon; C.H. Knoblauch -- Writing center and the paradoxes of written-down speech / Patrick Hartwell -- Promoting cognitive development in the writing center / Karen I. Spear -- Priorities and guidelines for the development of writing centers: Delphi study / Bene Scanlon Cox -- Writing center administration: Establishing and maintaining a writing center in a two-year college / Gary A. Olson -- Bottom line: Financial responsibility / Peggy Jolly -- Efficiency and insecurity: Case study in form design and records management / C. Michael Smith -- Undergraduate staffing in the writing center / Loretta Cobb; Elaine Kilgore Elledge -- Developing a peer tutor program / Linda Bannister-Wills -- Handbook as a supplement to a tutor training program / Jeanette Harris -- Special concerns: Problem of attitude in writing center relationships / Gary A. Olson -- ''I would prefer not to'': Consideration of the reluctant student / Mary K. Croft -- Derrida's ''Play'' and prewriting for the laboratory / Thomas Nash -- Assessing a new professional role: Writing center tutor / Rodney Simard -- Meeting the needs of foreign students in the writing center / Bertie E. Fearing; W. Keats Sparrow -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors.