(There aren't) Monsters in the Writing Center: Dealing with Difficult People
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Jeffrey Stellmach from the UT Employee Assistance Program gives our writing center a presentation on how to handle difficult people
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Things That Go "Alt-Ac" in the Night
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"Mention The Job Market to a graduate student and watch variegated coping mechanisms frantically kick into play. There’s no need to elaborate--the phrases are household boogeymen in my little corner of academic culture. But that’s the way of it, we tell ourselves: it’s just the price we pay to join the professorate."
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Comfort Zones and Safe Houses: Writing Centers and Direct Action
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"...as someone who has in the past taken to the streets, I want to add my voice to this forum and recommit myself to placing my body amongst others who take direct action and publically protest."
Read MoreWriting Center Professionalization
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How are writing centers equipping their consultants with the experiences and skills needed in today's job market?
Read MoreOn Not Consulting: Reflections from a Former (?) Consultant
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"Though I might not be consulting right now, I will always be a consultant." One of our managing editors reflects on his time off from consulting.
Read MoreWriting Centers, Safe Spaces, and the Rhetoric of Expression
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Does the rhetoric of the safe space have a place in writing centers? How might writing center practice challenge or support Dean John Ellison's recent letter condemning trigger warnings and safe spaces in higher education?
Read MoreGraduate Student Peer Consultations: An Interview with Tom Lindsay and Sara Saylor
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Sara Saylor and Tom Lindsay sit down with Praxis to chat about their experiences consulting with graduate student writers, the difficulties and rewards of working with this community, and the state of graduate student support in writing centers, particularly at UT.
Read MoreSuggestions for Supporting Graduate Writers by Mary Hedengren
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"I’ve been in tearful consultations with 6th-year students who wonder whether they’ll ever finish and in feverishly optimistic writing-feedback groups. I’ve presided over more than 700 student work hours of writing retreats and facilitated 16 writing groups and held dozens of one-on-one consultations about everything from advisor management to the tricky use of indefinite articles in American Academic English. I’ve waded through the recent explosion in research about graduate writers and even more explosive polemics about them."
Read MoreSummer Wrap-Up
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Some concluding thoughts for the summer from managing editor James Garner.
Read MoreReflections on the Praxis CFP
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A brief recap of the March 2006 issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College along with a discussion of how its topics fit our CFP
Read MoreCFP for Praxis Fall 2017: Special Issue on Two-Year College Writing Research and Assessment
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A new CFP for Praxis's Fall 2017 issue!
Read MoreEmotions in the Writing Center
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Should writing center consultants feel free to introduce the topic of self care?
Read MoreThe Changing Role of Writing Composition: A Call for Essays Proposal
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An CFP on multimodal writing with exciting implications for writing centers.
Read MoreTaking the Mic: Audiences and Writing Center Blogs
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Should consultees have a chance to speak up about Writing Center practice on Axis?
Read MoreHappy Trails...
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you, 'till we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
On Retaining Highly Qualified Directors in College and University Writing Centers
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Today we have asked Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan to comment on recent administrative decisions related to specific writing centers- decisions that have attracted a great deal of attention in the field. We are grateful for their willingness to enunciate their stance with such vigor and clarity. We welcome responses to and elaborations of this post, as we do with all AXIS posts.
Read MoreIs There a Reproducibility Crisis in Writing Center Research?
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Today a public/private partnership between New America, Arizona State University and the online magazine Slate will hold an event called “Trust But Verify: The Crisis in Biomedicine.” The ‘crisis’ the title refers to results from a recent, widespread realization that important research in the field may be fundamentally flawed, a majority of it impossible to replicate for various reasons. This same crisis is occurring in the field of psychology, causing practitioners to question some of their basic clinical assumptions. An obvious question presents itself: is there a reproducibility crisis in writing center research?
Read MoreOn 'feminized space' in the Writing Center
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I’ve spent a lot of time as the only man in the room. Having worked (mostly with infants) in early childhood education after earning my English degree, and having attended a master’s program in feminist theory, spaces where women are the norm are familiar and pleasant places to me. Maybe this is why I like writing centers.
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