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Jenny Goransson – Writing Center Journal, 2024
This article shares findings from a survey study (n = 73) focused on writing center administrator (WCA) perceptions of two phenomena we see on many secondary and postsecondary campuses in recent years: writing centers expanding to become learning centers, and writing centers consolidating or merging with other tutoring services on campus. Through…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Administrators, Organizational Change
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Song, Bailin; Richter, Eva – Writing Center Journal, 1997
States that after a qualitative survey of participating instructors suggested the success of an in-class tutoring program at the open-admissions Kingsborough Community College, a quantitative survey compared the writing performance of students served by the program and those who were not. Indicates the program's success--more of those tutored…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
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Devlin, Frank – Writing Center Journal, 1996
Examines two studies: one that shows that competent to highly competent writers find writing centers beneficial, and the other that shows that faculty continue to think of writing centers as suited to remedial students and surface level corrections. Attempts to glean from these studies important information that could act as a corrective to all…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Remedial Instruction