Keywords
Access, asynchronous, nontraditional students, graduate students, writing center history
First Paragraph
In Summer 2012, I became the director of the Writing Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL). I was not new to the university or the Writing Center; I had been a faculty member since 1996 and held other administrative positions in the department. So when I stepped into the position, I had some ideas of what I wanted to do to expand our center. One of the things I was most interested in was developing an online tutoring service for students. As I began the fall semester, I thought I would have plenty of time to develop it; I saw it as something that we would launch in perhaps the next year or so. But it turned out we needed to develop it much sooner than that. So in a sense, this is the story of developing an online writing lab (OWL) on the fly.
Citation Information
Type of Source: Newsletter Article
Author: Denise Rogers
Year of Publication: 2014
Title: “Our First Steps in Establishing an Online Writing Lab at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette” (available online)
Publication: South Central Writing Centers Association (SCWCA) Newsletter
Page Range: 16-18