Presents three tutors' contributions to writing center theory. Shows how writing center theory can be enriched by including tutor voices and perspectives. Discusses the importance of including tutors in the construction of writing center theory. (SG)

Examines the assumption that instruction in writing centers is what it is because it is different from classroom instruction. Proposes studying the discourse of writing centers as another route to writing center self-definition. (RS)

Draws on experience at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to argue that recent trends in writing center theory and practice see literacy as a multimodal activity in which oral, written, and visual communication intertwine and interact. (NH)

The English Microlab Registry (EMR) was first designed as a database, or research tool, for planners of English microlabs in order to give them access to information about all aspects of microlab management. But EMR also provides descriptive data about what a microlab is and may well provide insight into whether those labs will survive. An…

This 83-item bibliography contains articles published in 1987 and 1988 of interest to administrators, staff, and users of writing centers. (RS)

Argues that, whether or not writing centers become an established part of the academic community, writing center staff should maintain a willingness to entertain multiple perspectives on critical issues and an ability to tolerate contradictions and contraries. Discusses some of the emerging dogmas concerning writing center instruction. (RS)

Argues that only from the inside can writers define their own metaphors to make what others say about writing centers the same as what they themselves say. Asserts that this goal will always remain elusive; and, though to pursue it is to empower writers, to achieve it would be to arrive at a definition, a comfortable but naive position. (PRA)

Asserts that changing writing "laboratories" into writing "centers" suggests in the word "centeredness" some of the best things a writing center can be in its sense of purpose and community; and, in the word "centrism," a few of the problems that writing centers may be heading for in its suggestions of monopoly and self-importance. (PRA)

Presents a bibliography of 76 newsletter contributions and journal articles of writing center scholarship published between April 1991 and March 1992. (PRA)

Advocates the poststructuralist-informed writing center conference in which considerations and discussions of the ideologically motivated nature of writing are more easily brought to the fore. Urges the writing center tutor to explicitly question and solicit a justification of the ideology which informs students' essays. (SR)

Lists 76 articles published in various journals between April 1990 and March 1991 on a range of topics regarding writing centers. (SR)

The question of where the line is often arises as tutors attempt to confine their tutoring within ethical boundaries suggested by the line image. On the surface, some issues look easy. To the question of whether tutors should offer advice on take-home test writing assignments, most writing center personnel would probably respond with…

This paper begins by describing the competing priorities and problems its author/educator encounters when trying to take care of business in the writing center. The paper moves from discussing her firsthand experiences as a scholar interested in both professional writing and the writing center to a study she and a friend did about tutor…

Positions writing centers in the painful paradoxes of literacy work and strips away the belief in innocence to make scholar-teachers more aware of the ways that literacy practices reproduce the social order and regulate access and subjectivity. Uses two stories about writing center students to illustrate the ways writing centers are inadvertently…

Argues that the meanings that writing center staff members assign to the words "tutor" and "tutee" run directly counter to the common meanings for the terms. Suggests replacing "tutor" with "writing assistant,""writing consultant," or "writing fellow." Suggests replacing "tutoring" with "discussion" or "consulting." Suggests replacing the term…