A Writing Center-Education Department Collaboration: Training Teachers to Work One-on-One
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2006
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Blumner, Jacob S.
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Writing centers regularly work to serve an entire campus community, developing satellite centers to make their services more convenient, and establishing an online presence to serve tech-savvy students. Some units outside of arts and sciences, such as business or heath science, establish writing centers to better focus on their students’ specific disciplinary writing needs. Many centers do community outreach that varies from providing a “grammar hotline” to collaborating with public schools and outside agencies on projects ranging from high school writing centers to corporate consulting. All of these activities support the main mission of a writing center: helping students become better writers. But writing centers can do more