The View from the Front Desk
This week Robert Cochran, a veteran Front Desk staffer, describes his experience at the University of Texas at Austin's University Writing Center.
Read MoreThis week Robert Cochran, a veteran Front Desk staffer, describes his experience at the University of Texas at Austin's University Writing Center.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreWe 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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