Writing Centers : An Annotated Bibliography

Writing centers play an important role in secondary and higher education. This reference work synthesizes writing center scholarship and overviews 90 years of discussions of writing center theory and practice. The introduction places writing centers within the larger context of writing pedagogy and investigates the paradigms and philosophies reflected in the evolution of writing centers. The entries are organized in topical chapters, and the work addresses important subjects such as the relationship of writing centers to literacy education, writing across the curriculum, the discipline of rhetoric and composition, and writing program administration.