Out of the Closet, Into the Fire? A Response to Kathryn Raign’s “Let Me Out! I’m Stuck in the Closet!”

September 22, 2015 by Thomas Spitzer-Hanks

In her July 21st blog post on AXIS, Kathryn Raign asked whether writing centers housed in insalubrious environments, and their directors, are being unfairly evaluated by student users. She posited that they are, due to her opportunity to measure student satisfaction with the space in a new location when the center she directs was moved. In the center that houses AXIS and its parent journal, Praxis, we have recently had a chance to evaluate Raign’s argument for ourselves.

Climbing 1500 Foot Vertical Rock Walls: Mentoring, Trust, and the Relationship Between Writing Center Tutors and their Mentors

September 15, 2015 by Kathryn Raign

The best high-risk climbers became the best because they had good mentors. The best writing lab tutors also had the best mentors—in most cases (I hope) their writing center director.

Subversive Work: A Response to Melissa Nicolas' "Can WPAs Align Their Beliefs With Their Practices?"

September 08, 2015 by Chet Breaux

In her recent post on the subject, Melissa Nicolas notes that “writing centers sabotage themselves everyday by continuing practices that feed into our perpetual marginalization.” I, and many others like me, represent the result of staffing practices that lead to problems in writing centers. If we halt these practices, though, where would we turn in order to appropriately staff a writing center? The English department? Who exactly is qualified to work in a writing center?