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Readings for Writing Center Staff Meetings:

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2007-2008

Block I

Monday, Sept. 10: Portrait of the Tutor as Artist: Lessons No One Can Teach
Monday, Sept. 17: Brainstorm Session for Website

Block II

Monday, Oct. 8: The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English

Block III

Monday, Nov. 5: Noise from the Writing Center "Introduction" and Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction

Block IV

Monday, Dec. 3: Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a 'Code of Cross-Cultural Conduct'

Block V
Monday, Jan. 28th: Live And On Stage: Writing Center Stories And Tutorial Authority

Block VI
Monday, Feb. 25th: Revisiting "The Idea of a Writing Center"

Block VII
Monday, March 24th: Writing Center Practice Often Counters Its Theory. So What!

2006-07

Block I

Monday, Sept. 10: The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English
Monday, Sept. 18: Writing Centers: The Long View

Block III

Monday, Nov. 6: Prattle of the Sexes
Monday, Nov. 13: Peer Tutor Alumni Project

Block VI

Monday, Feb. 26: Plagiarisms
Monday, Mar. 5: Unintentional Plagiarism

2005-06

Block VII

Monday, April 3, 2006: A Tutor Needs to Know the Subject Matter to Help a Student with a Paper: ___Agree ___Disagree ___Not Sure by Susan M. Hubbuch
Monday, April 10, 2006: "Look Back and Say 'So What'": The Limitations of the Generalist Tutor by Jean Kiedaisch & Sue Dinitz

Block VI

Monday, February 27, 2006: Organizing Ideas by Alice L. Trupe
Monday, March 6, 2006: Helping Writers to Write Analytically by Ben Rafoth

Block V

Monday, January 30, 2006: Creating Theory: Moving Tutors to the Center by Sue Dinitz & Jean Kiedaisch
Monday, February 6, 2006: Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms? by John Trimbur

Block IV

Monday, December 5, 2005: The Politics of Tutoring: Feminism within the Patriarchy by Meg Woolbright
Monday, December 12, 2005: Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers by Marilyn Cooper

Block III

Monday, November 7, 2005: Collaboration and Ethics in Writing Center Pedagogy by Irene Lurkis Clark
Monday, November 14, 2005: Freud in the Writing Center: the Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well by Christina Murphy