Resources

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

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Starting a centre

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:

Writing centre publications

Scholarly Journals

Scholarly Blogs

Writing centre associations and affiliations

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 EducationThe Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning12(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

Policy manuals