Podcasts on Writing, Language, and Humanity
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Read MoreA Writing Center Journal
What happens when we write? Why do we teach writing the way we do? How does writing education engage with questions of race, gender, accessibility, and cultural difference? How does the writing center function as an interdisciplinary space?
Axis extends the writing center conversation from Praxis, our peer reviewed scholarly journal, into a public forum. Exploratory, experimental, and informative, the blog speaks to questions on the cutting edge of writing center theory and practice. Axis features writing from undergraduate and graduate educators at the University of Texas at Austin, and guest writers from universities across the United States.
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Read More"I am grateful, then, that writing centers force us to confront the unbridgeable distance between individual lives. To preserve that distance instead of attempting to collapse it. To regard that distance as a friend, not an enemy. In a world riddled with dehumanizing forces, it’s one of the most humanizing things we can do."
Read MoreOne month until issue 14.1! Managing editor James Garner talks a bit about how the issue came about and reflects on the importance of graduate student services in writing centers.
Read MoreJeffrey Stellmach from the UT Employee Assistance Program gives our writing center a presentation on how to handle difficult people
Read More"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."
Read More"...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 MoreHow are writing centers equipping their consultants with the experiences and skills needed in today's job market?
Read More"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 MoreDoes 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 MoreSara 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 More"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 MoreSome concluding thoughts for the summer from managing editor James Garner.
Read MoreA 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 MoreA new CFP for Praxis's Fall 2017 issue!
Read MoreShould writing center consultants feel free to introduce the topic of self care?
Read MoreAn CFP on multimodal writing with exciting implications for writing centers.
Read MoreShould consultees have a chance to speak up about Writing Center practice on Axis?
Read MoreHappy 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.
A brief welcome and update from the new senior managing editor.
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