Writing in Context: Redefining the Writing Center as the Multidisciplinary Hub for Writing in the New Millennium
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2011
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Golden, Paulette
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Adaptive communication methods for new technologies and looming budget cuts present the perfect opportunity to revisit and reassess the writing center's purpose within higher learning institutions. Writing centers should be the "hubs" of academic and professional discourse, places that celebrate the different written conventions of each discipline. One modest goal of a writing center should be to help students bridge the gap between different disciplines and areas of focus. Students may become frustrated by the conflicting messages received from professors when encouraged to communicate with detailed and descriptive prose in one class while conversely encouraged to communicate with crisp, concise bulleted lists in another class. To help students navigate such rhetorical challenges, the writing center should function as a centralized home of discourse that is able to explain and demonstrate writing in context