Review: Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers
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2013
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Smyczek, Jeremy
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In Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers, Jackie
Grutsch McKinney contends that writing centers have
a narrative problem: despite multifaceted work, writing
center professionals present a unified public face that
describes homey, nontraditional centers that are of
equal service to all. Grutsch McKinney holds that not
only does this “writing center grand narrative” (3)
overlook the labor that goes on within, but it
concurrently creates tunnel vision among professionals
and researchers. This vision has pernicious
consequences for those employed in and served by
writing centers, and impedes the “peripheral visions”
of the field that might otherwise manifest.