Blogs, Training Resources, and Conferences
Peer Centered: A Peer Tutoring Blog
PeerCentered is a space for peer writing tutors/consultants or anyone interested in writing centers to blog with their colleagues from around the world. Bloggers here will share their ideas, experiences, or insight. Read through the postings, and then contribute one of your own (just write Clint Gardner to join).
National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW)
The official site for the conference--an excellent opportunity to present ideas on your own work and to hear from others about theirs. The site has a space to share ideas with others.
A resource from the University of Richmond that contains video training clips and questions to consider while watching the videos.
Tutor.edu: a Manual for Writing Center Tutors
An online training manual developed by the Appalachian College Association in order to foster “the belief that writing and technology are integral to all disciplines.” Sections include writing center history, working with students with different needs, ESL strategies, ethics, and publicity.
Publications
The Dangling modifier is an “international newsletter for peer tutors in writing.” The site features a variety of articles about peer tutoring, a “tutor guru,” and an archive of past issues.
An online journal based at the University of Texas at Austin\’s Undergraduate Writing Center, Praxis is edited by writing consultants and aimed at an audience of consultants/peer tutors and writing center directors. We feature articles written by tutors and directors concerning issues such as training, consulting strategies, and professional development.
The Writing Lab Newsletter is a forum for exchanging
ideas and information about writing centers in high schools,
colleges, and universities. Articles focus on challenges in
tutoring theory and methodology, handling ESL issues, directing
a writing center, training tutors, adding computers, designing
and expanding centers, and using tutorial theory and pedagogy.
In addition to articles, issues contain conference
announcements, book reviews, professional news, and a column by
and for tutors. The newsletter is published monthly from
September to June.
Writing Center Journal
The Writing Center Journal's primary purpose is to
publish original research of interest to writing center
professionals and to those forging connections between writing
centers and the wider arenas of rhetoric and composition
studies. As a forum for peer-reviewed scholarship, WCJ
publishes theoretical and empirical research on a range of
practices, pedagogies, and administration associated with
writing center work. WCJ aims to reflect the diversity of
writing center contexts through its content and, in so doing,
encourages submissions focused not only on writing centers in
colleges and universities but also high schools, middle schools,
and other environments. In addition, WCJ welcomes book
reviews, announcements of interest, and letters responding to
WCJ articles. WCJ is also on
Facebook.