Writing Center - Colorado College

 

2009-2010

Block I

Traction
Transferring Analysis across the Curriculum


2008-2009

Block I

• Monday, Sept. 8: Someone to Watch Over Me: Reflection and Authority in the Writing Center

Block V

• Week of Jan. 26-30: Are Writing Centers Ethical?
• Week of Feb. 2-6: Humor and the Serious Tutor

  Block VI

• Week of Feb. 16-20: "Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- to Post-Open Admissions
• Week of Feb. 23-27: Maintaining Our Balance: Walking the Tightrope of Competing Epistemologies

 

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