A Review of Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center

Abstract

Introduction : the theory behind the centers / Joan A. Mullin -- Writing center practice often counters its theory. So what? / Eric H. Hobson -- Collaborative learning and whole language theory / Sallyanne H. Fitzgerald -- The creative writing workshop and the writing center / Katherine H. Adams and John L. Adams -- The writing center and social constructionist theory / Christina Murphy -- Collaborative learning theory and peer tutoring practice / Alice M. Gillam -- Writing others, writing ourselves : ethnography and the writing center / Janice Witherspoon Neuleib and Maurice A. Scharton -- Text linguistics : external entries into "our" community / Ray Wallace -- Learning disabilities and the writing center / Julie Neff -- Individualized instruction in writing centers : attending to cross-cultural differences / Muriel Harris -- A unique learning environment / Pamela Farrell-Childers -- Buberian currents in the collaborative center / Tom MacLennan -- "The use of force" : medical ethics and center practice / Jay Jacoby -- The politics of otherness : negotiating distance and difference / Phyllis Lassner -- Literacy and the technology of writing : examining assumptions, changing practices / Joan A. Mullin -- Tutor and student relations : applying Gadamer's notions of translation / Mary Abasacal-Hildebrand.