The Categories We Keep: Writing Center Forms and the Topoi of Writing

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dc.creatorLeCluyse, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-19T13:49:49Z
dc.date.available2017-10-19T13:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionAt the writing center where I began my career, every session ended with a conundrum. Our database required us to complete the record for the consultation by checking one of some two dozen checkboxes indicating the topics covered during the session. Because most of the tutors were graduate students concurrently teaching first-year composition, some of these topics were drawn from the standardized curriculum for that course, including a tripartite division of the revision process into the separate stages of revising, editing, and proofreading. These categories were inherently redundant, since the tutor then had to check whatever other aspects of writing revising at each of these levels entailed. As time went on, we added additional categories to reflect the kind of language novice writers brought with them to the writing center, including “flow.” Now covering a single topic like organization might involve checking three boxes, one for revision, one for organization, and one for flow, if the writer’s concept of that ambiguous category included organization.en_US
dc.description.departmentUniversity Writing Centeren_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2QJ78D9S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/62176
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPraxis: A Writing Center Journalen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPraxis: A Writing Center Journal;Vol 10, No 2
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectChristopher LeCluyseen_US
dc.subjectLeCluyseen_US
dc.subjecttopoi of writingen_US
dc.titleThe Categories We Keep: Writing Center Forms and the Topoi of Writingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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