Talk:Writing center

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Most Awesome Consultant
I would really like to question the validity of the statement concerning who the exemplary example of a writing consultant. What are the qualifications of said position? Who is the determinant of the most awesome consultant? I would like to move that Joana Lincoln be permanently granted that titled position. All in favor? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.170.53.118 (talk) 23:22, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Factuality Question
I would like to question the current factuality of this article. As it stands, it presents the theory behind what a good writing center "should" do as if that were the facts of how they are actually run. While the theory presented is sound, and there are many writing centers run in this way, I have also seen several writing centers that still hearken back to the pre-dartmouth conference days simple evaluation and improvement (I even worked at one for a while). I think that this should be acknowledged in the article. --DavidJGross 00:56, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

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And then the debate would be whether such a center is actually a writing center at all. --Snnech--71.211.192.239 (talk) 18:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

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Actually a writing center history section would be a great addition to this. I wonder if that would address your concern, DavidJGross? Gardnecl (talk) 02:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Scholarship Section
It would seem we could use a theory/scholarship section in this article. We have multiple audiences here: writers trying to find out what writing centers are and scholars who may be interested in writing centers either to start one or to explore their theory and practice. ~Clint Gardner

I agree. Maybe there could also be a history section, tracing the development of writing centers from early, remedial "labs" and "clinics." -Hickoryhillster 17:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Comma Question
Clint,

At the risk of reinforcing an old stereotype of writing center people as grammatical quibblers, I have a grammatical quibble for you: Why did you consider the comma before the "which" clause in the first sentence to be extraneous? To me, this clause looks like a nonrestrictive modifier. -Hickoryhillster 17:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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It seems to be a restrictive clause or something like it in that the meaning of the sentence is altered considerably without it. I'm am going to remove the troublesome "which" and replace it with "that."

Organization
It might be nice to have a more organized and/or inclusive listing of writing center resources for those seeking such information from this page. I'll try and get this going. Cheers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xepharalon (talk • contribs) 20:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

I made some major organizational changes to the page to move writing centers out of the "external links" section to a better category (writing centers at various institutions), did a bunch of edits better describing WC work, and added various links that will help folks interested in forming a WC.

We definitely need to consider making a quick link for people searching for help with their writing. I have no idea how to do that. ~Clint Gardner

Links
Given that the list of links to writing centers was getting unweildy, I agree with Leuko that they should be trimmed. The external links and the links to writing center professional organizations, however, should be maintained. --Clint Gardner