Writing Program and Writing Center Collaborations : Transcending Boundaries /

This book demonstrates how to develop and engage in successful academic collaborations that are both practical and sustainable across campuses and within local communities. Authored by experienced writing program administrators, this edited collection includes a wide range of information addressing...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Myatt, Alice Johnston (Editor); Gaillet, Lyn e Lewis (Editor)
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59932-2
Summary: This book demonstrates how to develop and engage in successful academic collaborations that are both practical and sustainable across campuses and within local communities. Authored by experienced writing program administrators, this edited collection includes a wide range of information addressing collaborative partnerships and projects, theoretical explorations of collaborative praxis, and strategies for sustaining collaborative initiatives. Contributors offer case studies of writing program collaborations and honestly address both the challenges of academic collaboration and the hallmarks of successful partnerships. .
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XXVII, 275 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137599322
Index Number: LB2300
CLC: G640
Contents: Preface -- 1 Enacting Partnerships: Writing Programs, Writing Centers, and the Collaboration Continuum -- 2 Crafting Collaboricity: Harmonizing the Force Fields of Writing Program and Writing Center Work -- 3 Using Autoethnography to Bring Together Writing Center and Composition Practicums -- 4 The Dynamics of Collaboration and Hierarchy: Developing, Assessing, and Revising a First-Year Composition/Writing Center Partnership -- 5 Breeding Partnerships: Examining a Decade-Long Collaborative Praxis between Animal Sciences and English Departments -- 6 How STEM Can Gain Some STEAM: Crafting Meaningful Collaborations between STEM Disciplines and Inquiry-Based Writing Programs -- 7 Turning Stories from the Writing Center into Useful Knowledge: Writing Centers, WID Programs, and Partnerships for Change -- 8 Collaborative Development: Reflective Mentoring For GTAs -- 9 The Multiliteracy Center as Collaboration Tool -- 10 Meeting the World: Negotiating Meaning at the Writing Studio -- 11 Collaborating to Support International Student Writers -- 12 Illuminating Collaboration: Bringing the Writing Program to the Community -- Afterword. .