Writing Center Journal 1991 web Open Access

Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center

Andrea Lunsford

Abstract

The triple focus of my title reflects some problems I've been concentrating on ás I thought about and prepared for the opportunity to speak last week at the Midwest Writing Centers Association meeting in St. Cloud, and here at the Pacific Coast/Inland Northwest Writing Centers meeting in Le Grande.Til try as I go along to illuminate -or at least to complicate -each of these foci, and I'll conclude by sketching in what I see as a particularly compelling idea of a writing center, one informed by collaboration and, I hope, attuned to diversity.

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Writing Center Journal
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1991
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10.7771/2832-9414.1252
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