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Ritter, Kelly and Paul Kei Matsuda. “Introduction: How Did We Get Here?”Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, and Perspectives. Ed. Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda. UP of Colorado, 2012, pp. 1-10.
Gillepsie, Paula and Neal Lerner. “Observing in the Writing Center.” The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring, 2nd edition. Paula Gillepsie and Neal Lerner. Pearson, 2008, pp. 61-72.
Elbow, Peter. “The Process of Writing – Growing.” Writing Without Teachers. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1998, pp. 12-48.
Elbow, Peter. “The Process of Writing – Cooking.” Writing Without Teachers. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1998, pp. 49-75.
Brandt, Deborah. “Sponsors of Literacy.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 49, no. 2, 1998, pp. 165-185.
Gee, James Paul. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics.” The Journal of Education, vol. 171, no. 1, 1989, pp. 5-176.
Hartwell, Patrick. “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.” College English, vol. 47, no. 2, 1985, pp. 105-127.
Donahue, Christiane. “Transfer, Portability, Generalization: (How) Does Composition Expertise ‘Carry’?.” Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, and Perspectives. Ed. Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda. UP of Colorado, 2010, pp. 145-66.
Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on Language Policy. “Students’ Right to Their Own Language.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. NCTE, 2014, cccc.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/srtolsummary.
Perryman-Clark, Staci et al. “Understanding Complexities Associated with What It Means to Have the Right to Your Own Language.” Students’ Right to Their Own Language: A Critical Sourcebook, edited by Staci Perryman-Clark et al, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015, pp. 1-16.
Trimbur, John. “Linguistic Memory and the Politics of U.S. English.” College English, vol. 68, no. 6, 2006, pp. 575-588.
Canagarajah, A. Suresh. “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 57, no. 4, 2006, pp. 586-619.
Greenfield, Laura. “The Standard English Fairytale: A Rhetorical Analysis of Racist Pedagogies and Commonplace Assumptions about Language Diversity.”Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change. Ed. Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan. Utah State UP, 2011, pp. 33-60.
Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind.” College English, vol. 46, no. 7, 1984, pp. 635-652.
North, Stephen. “The Idea of a Writing Center.” College English, vol. 46, no. 5, 1984, pp. 433-446.
Newkirk, Thomas. “The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in the Writing Conference.” In Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research. Ed. Chris Anson. NCTE, 1989, pp. 317-333.
DePaul UCWbL. “Episode 7: The Rookie.” The Breakroom. YouTube.com, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G8zNK-4Bg4&t=1s&list=PLLu7lPzi6vMaDG3n9e4D-5Q_aQTgSeYK1&index=4.
DePaul UCWbL. “Episode 5: The Nervous Nellie.” The Breakroom. YouTube.com, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q_2LXf3t4A&t=0s&list=PLLu7lPzi6vMaDG3n9e4D-5Q_aQTgSeYK1&index=6.
DePaul UCWbL. “Episode 1: The Mime.” The Breakroom. YouTube.com, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6Nw-3qgdE&t=7s&list=PLLu7lPzi6vMaDG3n9e4D-5Q_aQTgSeYK1&index=7.
Elbow, Peter, “The Believing Game–Methodological Believing.” English Department Faculty Publication Series, 5, 2008.
Sommers, Nancy. “Responding to Student Writing.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 33, no. 2, 1982, pp. 148-156.
Johnson-Shull, Lisa, and Sheri Rysdam. “Taken at Our Word: Making a Fundamental Agreement When Responding to Student Writing.” Issues in Writing, vol. 19, no. 1, 2012, pp. 25-40.
Lunsford, Andrea. “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1991, pp. 3-10.
Carino, Peter. “Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring.” In The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship. Ed. Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead. 2003. 96-114.
Brooks, Jeff. “Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work.” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1-5.
Shamoon, Linda and Deborah Burns. “A Critique of Pure Tutoring.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 1995, pp. 134-151.
Corbett, Steven J. “Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Debate.” Praxis, vol. 5, no. 2, 2008. (Read this online here.)
Thonus, Terese. “Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What is “Success”?.” Assessing Writing, vol. 8, no. 2, 2002, pp. 110-134.
Salem, Lori. “Decisions… Decisions: Who Chooses to Use the Writing Center?” Writing Center Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2016, pp. 147-171.
Moore Howard, Rebecca, and Tracy Hamler Carrick. “Activist Strategies for Textual Multiplicity: Writing Center Leadership on Plagiarism and Authorship.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Ed. Christina Murphy and Byron L. Stay. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006, pp. 249-260.
Adams, G. Travis. “The Line that Should Not be Drawn: Writing Centers as Reading Centered.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 73-90.
Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2005, pp. 6-20.
Corbett, Steven J. “Negotiating Pedagogical Authority: The Rhetoric of Writing Center Tutoring Styles and Methods.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 32, no. 1, 2013, pp. 81-98.
Hotson, Brian, and Asao Inoue. ““If You Are Doing it Right, You’ll Encounter Bumps and Trouble”: The University of Washington Tacoma’s Social Justice and Antiracism Statement.” Interview. Writing Lab Newsletter Blog, March 2017.
Draxler, Bridget. “Social Justice in the Writing Center.” The Peer Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017.
Lape, Noreen. “Training Tutors in Emotional Intelligence: Toward a Pedagogy of Empathy.” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1-6.
Denny, Harry, and Beth Towle, “Braving the Waters of Class: Performance, Intersectionality, and the Policing of Working Class Identity in Everyday Writing Centers.” The Peer Review, vol.1, no. 2, 2017.
DiPardo, Anne. “‘Whispers of Coming and Going’: Lessons From Fannie.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1992, pp. 125–144.
Effinger Wilson, Nancy.”Bias in the Writing Center: Tutor Perceptions of African American Language.” Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change. Ed. Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan. Utah State UP, 2011, pp. 177-191.
Grimm, Nancy. “Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race.” Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change. Ed. Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan. Utah State UP, 2011, pp. 75-101.
Faison, Wonderful, and Anna Treviño. “Race, Retention, Language, and Literacy: The Hidden Curriculum of the Writing Center.” The Peer Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017.
Perry, Alison. “Training for Triggers: Helping Writing Center Consultants Navigate Emotional Sessions.” Composition Forum, vol. 34, Jan. 2016.
Rinaldi, Kerri. “Disability in the Writing Center: A New Approach (That’s Not so New).” Praxis, vol. 13, no. 1, July 2015, pp. 8–13.
Batt, Alice. “Welcoming and Managing Neurodivergence in the Writing Center.” Praxis, vol. 15, no. 2, Jan. 2018, pp. 12–14.
Cherney, Kristeen. “Inclusion for the ‘Isolated’: An Exploration of Writing Tutoring Strategies for Students with Asd Inclusion for the ‘Isolated’: An Exploration of Writing Tutoring Strategies for Students with ASD.” Praxis, vol. 14, no. 3, Oct. 2017, pp. 49–55.
Denny, Harry. “Queering the Writing Center.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 95–124.
Dixon, Elise. “Uncomfortably Queer: Everyday Moments in the Writing Center.” The Peer Review, vol.1, no. 2, 2017.
Hopkins, Justin B. “Preferred Pronouns in Writing Center Reports.” Praxis, vol. 15, no. 2, Jan. 2018, pp. 9–11.
Rihn, Andrew, and Jay D. Sloan. “‘Rainbows in the Past Were Gay’: LGBTQIA in the WC.” Praxis, vol. 10, no. 2, 2013.
Olson, Bobbi. “Rethinking Our Work With Multilingual Writers: The Ethics and Responsibility of Language Teaching in the Writing Center.” Praxis, vol. 10, no. 2.
Brendel, Christian. “Tutoring between Language with Comparative Multilingual Tutoring.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 78-91.
Severino, Carol, and Shih-Ni Prim. “Word Choice Errors in Chinese Students’ English Writing and How Online Writing Center Tutors Respond to Them.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring/Summer2015 2015, pp. 115–143.
Kim, Juhi. “Could You Check my Grammar?: The Forbidden Request in the University Writing Center.” International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, vol. 7, no. 4, 2018, pp. 21-37.
Lape, Noreen G. “Going Global, Becoming Translingual: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center.” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 38, no. 3/4, Nov. 2013, pp. 1–6.
Smith, Angie. “Non-Traditional Students in the Writing Center: Bridging the Gap from a Process-Oriented World to a Product-Oriented One.” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 7, Mar. 2003, p. 12-14.
Gray, Jennifer P. “Translating Normalcy: Tutors Navigating Spaces between Expectations and Experiences for Non-Traditional Students.” Praxis, vol. 11, no. 1, 2013.
Bitzel, Alanna. “Writing Centers in Athletics, a New Contact Zone.” Praxis, vol. 10, no. 2, 2013.
Rifenberg, J. Michael. “Fleshing out the Uniqueness of Student-Athlete Writing Centers: A Response to Alanna Bitzel.” Praxis, vol. 10, no. 1, 2012.
Poe, Mya. “On Writing Instruction and a Short Game of Chess: Connecting Multiple Ways of Knowing and the Writing Process.” Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, vol. 4, no. 1, May 2000, pp. 30-44.
Chanock, Kate. “How a Writing Tutor can Help when Unfamiliar with the Content: A Case Study.” WAC Journal, vol. 13, pp. 113-131.
Severino, Carol, and Megan Knight. “Exporting Writing Center Pedagogy: Writing Fellows Programs as Ambassadors for the Writing Center.” Marginal Words, Marginal Work. Ed. William J. Macauley and Nicholas Mauriello. Hampton Press, 2007, pp. 19-34.
Mattison, Mike. “A is for Alumni: Cultivating Past Advisors as Current Advocates.“ WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 41, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 10.
