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One Small Step For A Writing Center: Adapting To Reimagined Spaces, Jacqueline Borchert
One Small Step For A Writing Center: Adapting To Reimagined Spaces, Jacqueline Borchert
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
Due to innovations in higher education, writing centers are increasingly moving away from the stereotypical, make-shift classroom to a variety of innovative spaces. This presentation uses the stories and voices of the tutors whose experience and development are affected by space to acknowledge the dynamic shift many writing centers are undergoing. Within the context of one-to-one peer tutorials in spaces not owned by any individual campus unit, this presentation provides considerations to increase understanding of how these new spaces shape tutors’ interactions with people and the space itself.
Training Tutors To Work With L2 Writers: Methods & Materials, Principles & Practices, Vicki Kennell, Amy Elliot
Training Tutors To Work With L2 Writers: Methods & Materials, Principles & Practices, Vicki Kennell, Amy Elliot
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
As international enrollment at universities increases, writing centers may see increased visits from second language writers looking for help with vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure as well as for help with global concerns. This workshop presentation provides information about creating a homegrown program for training tutors to work successfully with L2 writers. Included in the presentation are sample activities that illustrate some aspects directors may want to consider as they develop their own tutor training.
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Reimagining Relationships Between High School And College In The Wonderful World Of Writing Centers, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Richard Severe, Bridget Carey, Collin Baker
Reimagining Relationships Between High School And College In The Wonderful World Of Writing Centers, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Richard Severe, Bridget Carey, Collin Baker
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This panel presentation given at the 2014 International Writing Centers Assocation (IWCA) conference shows two ways that high school and college writing centers can intersect. The first presentation describes a partnership between a college and high school to form a “sister writing center.” The second presentation addresses shifting tutor identities when high school tutors go onto college. Both presentations identify direct and indirect relationships between high school and college writing centers, and attendees will be invited to share ideas about collaborating with high schools.
Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale, Ellery J. Sills
Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale, Ellery J. Sills
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation and paper offer a political rationale for the Purdue Writing Lab Repository project. It discusses the need to make writing center research institutionally viable, and how the repository can contribute both to preserving and disseminating writing center scholarship and to presenting writing center administration as institutional research.
Centering Our Stories: Applying Spatial Metaphors To Writing Center Publicity, Stacy O. Nall
Centering Our Stories: Applying Spatial Metaphors To Writing Center Publicity, Stacy O. Nall
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) discusses how writing centers can use digital spaces to position themselves as assets to their campus and local communities. While most writing centers have pages on their universities’ websites, there continue to be new ways that writing centers can take advantage of these spaces to make their work more visible to wider publics. One way they can do so, the presenter suggests, is through publishing stories about and by the people with whom they partner. These stories give greater visibility not only to achievements, but also help to …
Expanding Audiences For Online Writing Labs: Owls In The English As A Foreign Language Context, Joshua Paiz
Expanding Audiences For Online Writing Labs: Owls In The English As A Foreign Language Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation from the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) discusses online writing labs (OWLs), specifically the Purdue OWL, in the traditionally-defined English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The ELF context often presents unique challenges for the teaching of English writing, including challenges of finding appropriate resources. This may lead EFL writing practitioners to rely on the information presented by OWLs to supplement their teaching. However, many OWLs were originally designed for the so-called native speaker (North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand) audience. This raises the question of whether or not OWLs are meeting the needs of …
Soaring Into The Future: The Purdue Owl And Supporting The Next Generation Of Writers, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Caitlan Spronk, Joshua Paiz
Soaring Into The Future: The Purdue Owl And Supporting The Next Generation Of Writers, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Caitlan Spronk, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
Twenty years ago, the Purdue OWL was born as a website. Over these past twenty years, the Purdue OWL has become a popular, open-access writing resource utilized by tutors and writers all over the globe. This panel at the 2014 East Central Writing Centers Association (2014) conference discusses how the Purdue OWL has worked to stay relevant to its users throughout the past two decades. Panelists also discuss directions for the future. Attendees are invited to share their stories about the Purdue OWL and OWLs in general and how they support the next generation of writers
The Stories We Tell: Narratives, Institutional Discourse, And The Public Documents Of Writing Centers Part Iii, Tammy Conard-Salvo
The Stories We Tell: Narratives, Institutional Discourse, And The Public Documents Of Writing Centers Part Iii, Tammy Conard-Salvo
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This presentation from the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) explores how writing center administrators can create research spaces that not only further the work of writing centers but that also can be used to tell institutional and global stories of scholarship and outreach. The presentation describes how one writing center began a research repository to showcase its research to a global audience and to prevent scholarship that might have otherwise gone unpublished from being lost. Promoting research and research spaces—especially research that does not easily fall within the scope of traditional writing center work—may be one answer …
Encouraging The Growth Of Owls Worldwide: Utilizing Intercultural Rhetoric To Inform Best Practices, Joshua Paiz
Encouraging The Growth Of Owls Worldwide: Utilizing Intercultural Rhetoric To Inform Best Practices, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation for the 8th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference discusses work on the Purdue OWL, focusing on the resources targeting L2 writers writing for particular contexts (e.g., Writing for the Chinese Business Context), as these resource-types tend to be some of the early Purdue OWL spaces where the findings of intercultural rhetoric maybe more readily applied. This discussion will also provide an overview of recent research looking at the place of and practitioner attitudes towards OWLs in general and, more specifically, the Purdue OWL. The presenter will conclude by discussing new content development initiatives at the Purdue OWL and …
Online Writing Labs: Resources For Second Language Writers, Joshua Paiz, Ghada Gherwash
Online Writing Labs: Resources For Second Language Writers, Joshua Paiz, Ghada Gherwash
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation at the 2014 TESOL Developer's Showcase discusses best practices and special considerations for using Online Writing Labs as L2 writing support tools. This discussion is grounded both in recent OWL/Writing Center theory, as well as from the presenter's experiences working on a largescale OWL in a variety of capacities. To add to the discussion on special considerations when using OWLs, this presentation also provides a discussion of a recently completed research project involving the Purdue OWL and how it is used to support EFL writing. It will highlight how, even in resources labeled as "ESL," can be overly …
Tutor Education As Professionalization For Technical And Professional Communicators, Daniel P. Kenzie
Tutor Education As Professionalization For Technical And Professional Communicators, Daniel P. Kenzie
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This talk from the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 2013 conference describes an approach to writing center tutor education that has students not only prepare to tutor technical and professional writing, but also connect content to their majors and careers. I draw connections between research on former writing tutors, transfer of learning, and symbolic analytic work to position tutor education as professional preparation for technical and professional writers. I also invite participants to consider how writing centers and professional writing programs can collaborate work toward this dual outcome.
'He Just Did Not Listen To Me': Authority And Resistance In Writing Tutors' Encounters With Prior Learning, Daniel P. Kenzie
'He Just Did Not Listen To Me': Authority And Resistance In Writing Tutors' Encounters With Prior Learning, Daniel P. Kenzie
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
No abstract provided.
An Owl Abroad: A Descriptive Study Of Owl Use In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
An Owl Abroad: A Descriptive Study Of Owl Use In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The project reported on in this presentation at the 2013 East Central Writing Centers Association conference will provide some preliminary findings from a research survey carried out by Purdue OWL staff regarding attitudes towards OWLs in the EFL context. It will conclude with tentative recommendations, as well as by discussing the next steps required for to complete data analysis.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab: Engaging With Local And Global Communities Of Writers, Joshua Paiz, Caitlan Spronk
The Purdue Online Writing Lab: Engaging With Local And Global Communities Of Writers, Joshua Paiz, Caitlan Spronk
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
In 1995, then writing center director Muriel Harris and her staff developed and launched the precursor to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Originally, this was an in-house writing resource for Purdue University faculty and staff. Since then, however, the Purdue OWL has become a prime location for community engagement both locally and globally, with over 200,000,000 hits annually. This poster at the Purdue University Academic Community Engagement Poster Presentations demonstrates the impact of the Purdue OWL both locally and globally. It will also highlight how that engagement has changed overtime, through the growth the Purdue OWL’s static resources, to …
Embodied Kairos In The Writing Gymnasium, Christopher Dorn
Embodied Kairos In The Writing Gymnasium, Christopher Dorn
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This 2013 East Central Writing Centers Association (ECWCA) Conference presentation draws a comparison between the notions of fungible and epochal time (cf. Geller, “Tick-Tock, Next”) and the classical rhetorical terms, chronos and kairos. While kairos is typically considered in terms of time, its roots suggest a fundamental physical sense, making it a rich concept for imagining both the temporality and the materiality of writing centers. In addition to tracing the meaning of the Greek word and considering some of the kairotic aspects of writing center work, this presentation advocates adopting a kairotic attitude among writing center practitioners, one that …
Owls Across Borders: An Exploratory Study On The Place Of Online Writing Labs In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Owls Across Borders: An Exploratory Study On The Place Of Online Writing Labs In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The study reported on in this presentation at the 2013 Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW) examined the content creation best practices of four content development teams working on the Purdue OWL. Utilizing focus group methods the study sought to examine what strategies developers utilized to overcome the challenges faced while developing L2 instructional content for a global audience. By examining the various drafts of resources before they finally went live on the Purdue OWL, this study investigated the linguistic and rhetorical choices that developers made in an attempt to create content that would be of maximal user to L2 …
Next Generation Owls: Customized Solutions And The Move Toward Open-Sourcing, Matthew J. Gilchrist, Tammy Conard-Salvo
Next Generation Owls: Customized Solutions And The Move Toward Open-Sourcing, Matthew J. Gilchrist, Tammy Conard-Salvo
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This session from the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) identifies technologies for next generation online writing centers, describing customized solutions for online tutoring and the potential for making these into open-source technologies for other centers. Presenters will discuss new OWL technologies, definitions for changing technologies, and OWL pedagogy and praxis, as well as usability, development, and sharing/open-sourcing of online tutoring technologies. The issues raised in this panel are the result of an OWL Technology Summit held in 2007 where representatives from eleven institutions met to explore trends in online tutoring technology development. This panel brings forward key …
Mapping Support For Diversity Through Writing Center Administration, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Joy Santee, Richard Sévère
Mapping Support For Diversity Through Writing Center Administration, Tammy Conard-Salvo, Joy Santee, Richard Sévère
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This workshop presented at the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) 2008 conference explores how issues of diversity impact and shape writing center administration, specifically through tutor recruitment, tutor training, and policy development. The session focuses on a broad definition of diversity—including, but not limited to, race and culture, gender, sexuality, linguistics, age, and dis/ability.
Listening To Revise: Mainstream Uses Of Text-To-Speech Software In The Writing Center, Tammy Conard-Salvo, John M. Spartz
Listening To Revise: Mainstream Uses Of Text-To-Speech Software In The Writing Center, Tammy Conard-Salvo, John M. Spartz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations
This presentation from the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) offers results from an a study of text-to-speech software in a writing center and explores the effect that writing centers and tutors have on students’ use of and attitudes toward technology and writing. Initial results confirm our hypothesis that Kurzweil’s text-to-speech features provides considerable benefit to students, and that students identified additional errors during the revision and editing stages of writing than during revision done independently.