Changing spaces
Subtitle: writing centres and access to higher education
By: editors, Arlene Archer & Rose Richards
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sun Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stellenbosch, S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781920338596; 9781920338602
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Rhetoric; Higher education; English literature; English language; Mentoring; Language arts; Tutors and tutoring; Education
Other titles: Writing centres and access to higher education
Description: "[Changing spaces] makes a forceful and credible case for the role of writing centres in engaging with students, staff and institutional structures in understanding issues of acess from a social perspective ... This is a specialist book for those working in writing centres and for academics of all disciplines. It is based on research and provides an important set of theoretical arguments, developed through reflection on writing centre practices, about student writing and the work of the university"--Prof. Sioux McKenna.

"How do we select and train tutors? How do we work with faculty? How do we combat the image that we are remedial, a "fix-it" shop? How do we prove our worth? How do we show that we improve retention? ... Changing spaces demonstrates the flexibility of writing centers and the unique roles they play in South Africa. Writing centers everywhere represent institutional responses to the learning needs of their students, and they do so because writing centres adapt easily to different contexts and situations. They meet students where they are, as a group and individually"--Prof. Leigh Ryan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Alternate pedagogical spaces; title: Student cultural change: a manifesto for writing praxis in a South African writing centre / Pamela Nichols; title: Participant text and 8-sentence story / Mbongisi Dyantyi; title: 'We're all in this thing together': an equitable and flexible approach to language diversity in the Stellenbosh University writing lab / Sharifa Daniels and Rose Richards ; Part 2. Negotiating academic literacy spaces; title: Feedback or feed-forward? Implications of the language used in giving feedback on students' writing / Somkazi Deyi; title: The discourse of selfhood: students negotiating their academic identities in a writing centre / Wilhelm van Rensburg ; Part 3. Transformational spaces; title: A conversation about the UWC writing centre project / Brenda Leibowitz and Andrea Parkerson; title: A snowball in Africa with a chance of flourishing: writing centres and shifters of power in a South African university / Pamela Nichols; title: Writing in the academy: collaborative writing development with students and lecturers at the UWC writing centre / Sherran Clarence; title: The Fort Hare writing centre : an integrated collaborative model for writing and language advancement / Melanie Skead and Thembinkosi Twalo; title: Investigating the effect of writing centre interventions on student writing / Arlene Archer ; Part 4. Mentoring spaces ; Communities of practice: reflections on writing, research and academic practices in a writing centre / Thokozile Lewanika and Arlene Archer; title: 'Conversations' with postgraduate writers: understanding the role of the peer tutor / Cilla Dowse and Wilhelm van Rensburg; title: Becoming a writing centre consultant: effecting change on the part of a postgraduate student entering into the consultant experiece / Zach Simpson.