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March 2019
IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC 2019
The 2019 IWCA Collaborative will be held in Pittsburgh—the “steel city” and the “city of bridges”—in an effort to build bridges, which are so desperately needed in our field and in our society, we invite proposals that conceive of writing center work and pedagogy as “bridge building.”
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ECWCA Conference 2019
For some, the word represents a smooth flight pattern with little visible movement. For others, it represents flying to great heights, rising higher and higher. What, though, does soaring mean in a writing center?
Find out more »NCWCA Conference 2019
In addition to the diversity inherent to writing center users (the “audience”), there are other, additional groups that are traditionally considered as having their own needs: “Basic writers, writers with disabilities, second-language writers, and graduate student writers have been treated as ‘different’ populations in the writing center literature” (Babcock and Thonus, 2018). Babcock and Thonus go on to encourage “writing center administrators and researchers to consider not only specific practices likely to better support such tutees but at the same time to avoid ‘othering’ them” (2018). We invite you to join us as we discuss how the writing center serves and supports its many different audiences.
Find out more »TYCA-PNW & PNWCA Joint Conference 2019
In this, our final collaborative conference between TYCA-PNW and PNWCA, we invite you to join us in thinking about the forces that pull us together as academic professionals and students in all our varied abilities, backgrounds, and subject identities. How might we choose to see opportunity in the adversities and tensions surrounding us in these dangerous and unpredictable times? How can we look beneath the surface to create ties that help sustain us all and enable us to fulfill our mission as educators and learners?
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