Links

• International Writing Centers Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Montclair State University
• Montclair NJ Board of Ed

RESOURCES SPECIFICALLY TARGETED TO K-12 WRITING CENTERS

Childers, Pamela B. “Bottom Up or Top Down: A Case Study of Two Secondary School Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Childers, Pamela B. “College/High School Connections.” The Writing Lab Newsletter, May-June1992, 1+.

Childers, Pamela B., ed. The Clearing House. Special Issue 80.2 (Nov/Dec. 2006).

Childers, Pamela B. “Designing a Strategic Plan for a Writing Center.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Childers, Pamela B. “Writing Center or Experimental Center for Faculty Research, Discovery and Risk Taking?” Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships. Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Childers, Pamela, Dawn Fels and Jeanette Jordan. “The Secondary School Writing Center: A Place to Build Confident, Competent Writers.” Praxis. Vol. 2 Issue 2 Fall 2004. http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=node/91

Childers, Pamela B., Jeanette Jordan and James K. Upton. “Virtual High School Writing Centers: A Spectrum of Possibilities.” Wiring the Writing Center. Eric H. Hobson, ed. Logan, UT: Utah State Press, 1998.

Childers, Pamela B., Jud Laughter, Michael Lowry and Steve Trumpeter. “Developing a Communicty in a Secondary School Writing Center.” Weaving Knowledge Together: Writing Centers and Collaboration. Carol Peterson Haviland, Maria Notarangelo, Lene Whitley-Putz, and Thia Wolf, eds. Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1998.

Childers, Pamela B. and Jim Upton. “Political Issues in Secondary School Writing Centers.” The Politics of Writing Centers. Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Farrell, Pamela. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

Kent, Richard. A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Mullin, Joan A. and Ray Wallace, eds. Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994.

Silk, Bobbie, ed. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1998.

Silva, Peggy. “Launching a High School Writing Center.” Praxis. Vol. 2 Issue 2 Fall 2004.
http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=node/40

Tipper, Meg. “Real Men Don’t Do Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Journal 19. 2 (1999).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL WRITING CENTERS

Bishop, Wendy. Teaching Lives. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997.

Black, Laurel Johnson. Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998.

Brannon, Lil, Melinda Knight and Vara Nemerow-Turk. Writers Writing. Upper Montclair NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1982

Briggs, Lynn Craigue, and Meg Woolbright, eds. Stories from the Center: Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Clark, Irene L. Writing in the Center: Teaching in a Writing Center Setting. 2nd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1992.

Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

Harris, Jeanette and Joyce Kinkead, eds. The Writing Center Journal 11.1. (Fall/Winter 1990).

McAndrew, Donald A. and Thomas J. Reigstad. Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for Conferences. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Murray, Donald. Write to Learn. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1984.

Murray, Donald. A Writer Teaches Writing. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Murphy, Christina and Joe Law, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1995.

Nelson, Jane and Kathy Evertz. The Politics of Writing Centers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Romano, Tom. Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1987.

Ryan, Leigh. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

Shapiro, Susan R. and Deborah A. Marinelli. College Transition: A Critical Thinking Approach. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barnett, Robert W., and Jacob S. Blumner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Farrell, Pamela B, ed. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.

Fullan, Michael. Leadership & Sustainability: Systems Thinkers in Action. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 2005.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.

Roberts, Carol. The IPFW Writing Center Consultants Guide. Fort Wayne: IPFW, 2006.

Sagor, Richard. The Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Step Process for Educators and School Teams. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 2005.

Stay, Byron L., and Carl Glover, eds. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg: NWCA, 1998