Below are resources that may be helpful for your writing centre and writing centre practice.

Suggest additions to this page! Contact the CWCA/ACCR Digital Media Chair.

Starting a centre

• How to Start a University Writing Centre (from the Academic Writing Centre at Copenhagen University)
• How to Start and Run a Writing Center With No Budget, or How We Did the Impossible!
• International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Resources
• IWCA Position Statements

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), of which the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a special interest group, produces position statements that can be helpful in developing mission and vision:

• NCTE Beliefs about the Students’ Right to Write
• CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers
• CCCC Statement on Preparing Teachers of College Writing
• NCTE Resolution on the Students’ Right to Their Own Language

Writing centre publications

Scholarly Journals

• SKRIB: Critical Studies in Writing Programs and Pedagogy
• Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie (DW/R) (formerly the Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie)
• College Composition and Communication
• The Peer Review
• Praxis: A Writing Centre Journal
• Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
• The Writing Center Journal
• Writing Lab Newsletter

Scholarly Blogs

• Canadian Writing Centre Review/ La revue Canadienne des centres de rédaction
• Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders
• The Dangling Modifier
• Another Word
• PeerCentered
• UCWbLing
  

Writing centre associations and affiliations

• Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW)
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC, aka 4Cs)
• International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)

Writing centre bibliography

Bell, S., & Hotson, B. (2021). Where is the Support? Learning Support for Multimodal Digital Writing Assignments by Writing Centres in Canadian Higher Education. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2021.1.10780

Bromley, P. (2017). Locating Canadian writing centres: An empirical investigation. Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 27, 24–41. Retrieved from http://journals.sfu.ca/cjsdw

Graves, H. & Graves, R, eds. (2006). Writing centres, writing seminars, writing cultures: Writing instruction in Anglo-Canadian universities. Inkshed Publications, University of Manitoba: Winnipeg

Graves, R. (1994). Writing instruction in Canadian universities. Inkshed Publications, University of Manitoba.

McMurtrie, B. (2018). Future of learning: How colleges can transform the educational experience. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Writing centre training and policy manuals

Training manuals

• Foundations of Effective Tutoring
  

Policy manuals

• Saint Mary’s University writing centre policies and procedures
• York University Writing Centre Policy Book