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Peer reviewedSmith, Louise Z. – Writing Center Journal, 1986
Notes the inevitable tensions that arise between centripetal writing centers and centrifugal writing across the curriculum programs. Examines the tutoring program at an eastern university as an example of a decentralized writing center that resists pressures to assume a uniform composition pedagogy and coordinates its work with many parts of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKennedy, Barbara L. – Writing Center Journal, 1993
Describes the five major problems faced by foreign students in traditional composition classes. Presents types of tutorial activities which may prove beneficial when dealing with the major problems that ESL students have in both reading and writing in English. Discusses the effect of such tutorial activities at the University of Kentucky. (HB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Freshman Composition
Roberts, David H., Ed.; Wolff, William C., Ed. – 1986
Addressing a variety of concerns of writing center directors and staff, directors of freshman composition, and English department chairs, the papers in this collection discuss writing center research and evaluation, writing center tutors, and computers in the writing center. The titles of the essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "Narrative…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
