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2022 Conference Virtual Access

Keynote Address:

“Transforming Practices: Writing Centers on the Edge of Now”

LINDSAY SABATINO AND BRIAN FALLON

April 2nd

9:15-10:15 AM

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Friday, April 1st

Workshop with Dr. Leigh Ryan.

From “What is a Writing Center?” To “What’s New in the Writing Center?”: Our Past, Present, and Future

A link to view this workshop virtually will be sent via email to Friday workshop registrants.

Saturday, April 2nd

A5 Online - 10:30 - 11:30

Multimodal Composing, Linguistic Justice

Online Panel Presentation

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Multimodal Composing in the Writing Center: Tutor Training for Media Studies Assignments

Kerri Rinaldi and Kelly George, Immaculata University

How can a writing center at a small, liberal arts college best equip students and peer tutors for multimodal composition? This presentation examines the benefits and challenges of a course-based collaboration with media studies faculty.

Linguistic Justice: Sustainable Change and Ongoing Conversations

Elise Romero, University of Pittsburgh

How do we honor linguistic justice without jeopardizing a tutees ability to succeed in a world that expects White Mainstream English? Lasting solutions lie in uncomfortable conversations and honesty between tutors and tutees.

Bleeding Edge: The Manifesto as a Staff Development Tool

Tyler Thier, Hofstra University

Manifestos start with the individual in relation to oppressive systems. They end with a blueprint for liberation. How can they be implemented in staff development as a tool for empathy?

B5 Online - 11:30 - 12:30

Building Communities of Practice: New Training Paradigms Post-Covid

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Carmen Meza, Mairin Barney, and Nyla Green, Towson University

This panel will use a community of practice framework to launch discussion about the ways in which writing centers can foster a community of learning and teaching through unified training models. Participants will learn about 3 different training contexts: Graduate Consultant Workshop, Writing Fellows and Faculty Partner Training, and Undergraduate Writing Assistant Training.

C5 Online - 1:30 - 2:30

"We're Back Now, Right?": Restoring Face-to-Face Tutoring in the (Post?) COVID-19 Era

Online Panel Presentation

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Brennan Thomas, Alyssa Baxter, Sarah Klein, and Scott Riner, St. Francis University

This panel examines how our tutors have adapted tutorial methods to accommodate our constituency's COVID-19-related concerns of accessibility, ease, and mental health following the full restoration of our face-to-face services.

D4 Online - 2:30 - 3:30

Virtually the Same (or Not?): Considering New Directions in the Writing Center

Online Panel Presentation

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Jennifer Marx, Michael Heiss, Marylin Buono-Magri, and Aisha Wilson-Carter, Hofstra University

This presentation considers how writing centers can build equitable programs that maintain the benefits of in-person support while promoting the inclusivity and work-life balance that online tutoring invites.

D5 Online - 2:30 - 3:30

Developing Flexible Approaches to Writing Center Work

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HOWLing for Student Success: Leveraging LibWizard and Structured Feedback Forms to Enhance Asynchronous Writing Tutoring

Robin Edwards and Kim Mong, Harrisburg Area Community College

How one two-year college implemented LibWizard as a mechanism for submitting writing assignments and providing consistently structured feedback in asynchronous tutoring sessions.

Agility in Our Pandemic World: A Call for Hybrid Outreach Approaches to Enhance Writing Center Spaces

Tara Friedman and Patricia Dyer, Widener University

We aim to address how a hybrid approach to writing center outreach best sustains our ethos of agility. We outline our current efforts of expanded outreach, including evening presentations, Q&A sessions, and small working groups, and detail future plans of expansion, such as an e-newsletter and short tutorial videos, as we formulate ideas on the writer center’s future spaces.

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