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Consultant Spotlight: Elizabeth Picherit

January 20, 2016 by Sarah Orem

For many years, Praxis regularly featured “consultant spotlight” columns – brief interviews where an individual writing center worker was invited to reflect on their background as a writer, their consulting style, and their experiences in their home writing center. In conjunction with the recent issue on “Writing Dis/Abiltiy,” I asked the Praxis editors if they would be interested in a consultant spotlight column focused on a writing center worker who experiences disability in some way. They graciously said yes, and so a few months ago I sat down for a conversation with Lizzie Picherit, a graduate student in the department of English at the University of Texas at Austin and consultant in UT’s University Writing Center.

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January 20, 2016 /Sarah Orem

Praxis 13.1 is here!

December 15, 2015 by Thomas Spitzer-Hanks & James Garner

We are enormously proud to be publishing this issue. While previous issues have always included one or two articles, columns or features focused on what could be considered non-traditional or non-typical subject matter for the study of writing center research and practice, this issue takes as its focus just that: the non-typical.

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December 15, 2015 /Thomas Spitzer-Hanks & James Garner

The Accommodation Process: Disability in the Writing Center

December 09, 2015 by Elizabeth Picherit

As part of our ongoing series on dis/ability, today we revisit a post by Elizabeth Picherit, former Praxis archivist, as she describes her experience "putting her disability cards out on the table" with a consultee requesting accommodations.

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December 09, 2015 /Elizabeth Picherit
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