Our orientations to these texts reflect different degrees of experience-as purveyors of stories of writing centers (the good, the bad, and others), as tutors struggling with (and through) new media to collaborate with writers, and as scholars engaged in everyday and formalized assessment of our mentoring practices. Harry approaches these texts as a faculty administrator and researcher of writing centers Cara as a recent graduate student and current professional writing center consultant and Michael as a second-year doctoral candidate in writing center and composition studies. Too often scholarship for/on writing centers flattens its audience, rarely addressing the intellectual demands necessary for participating in disciplinary conversations or the process for a diverse range of interlocutors to join these communities of practice. We approach this review attuned to the distinct standpoints from which we look. Macauley Jr.'s Building Writing Center Assessments that Matter-offer theoretical frameworks, technological innovation and program inquiry to re-imagine and critically explore how we think and practice in the ordinary (sometimes exceptional) spaces where one-to-one mentoring happens. Three recent books in writing center studies-Jackie Grutsch McKinney's Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers, Sohui Lee and Russell Car-penter's The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media, and Ellen Schendel and William J. ![]() For us, questioning the pedagogy and process of how we operate in sessions should be just as ubiquitous as the stories we share and the practices we employ in writing centers. It provides an overview of the field of linguistics, its three dimensions of language structure: the sound system (phonetics and phonology), vocabulary (morphology), and grammar (syntax), and the way linguistic. This course is an introduction to the study of language. As a result, our everyday becomes easily hegemonic, unchallenged. This course satisfies the Santa Monica College Global Citizenship requirement. We enter spaces as gendered, sexualized, racialized, and nationalized people, yet too often those identities are not foregrounded in the everyday work we do in writing centers. All three of us utilize different lenses to perceive the world.
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