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Steven Johnson sees the machine not as an attachment to our bodies, but as an environment, a space to be explored (24). Likewise, the spaces that our writing centers now inhabit need exploration and explanation. Although as writing center practitioners and scholars we understand that we cannot necessarily replicate face-to-face (f2f) consultations in virtual writing spaces or even over the phone, our goal at the University of Central Florida (UCF) was to integrate these types of consultations into our existing system without compromising our mission statement and consulting philosophies. The synchronous nature of phone and online consultations supports the University Writing Center’s (UWC) mission of helping to “foster the community of scholarship and shared leadership at UCF through peer consulting, a form of collaborative learning which involves students in each other’s intellectual and academic development.” The University Writing Center is a nonremedial peer consultant service for undergraduate and graduate students at UCF. Consultants work with writers at every stage of the writing process—from the prewriting stage to finalizing revisions.
Citation Information
Type of Publication: Newsletter Article
Author: Rusty Carpenter
Year of Publication: 2009
Title: “Writing Center Dynamics: Coordinating Multimodal Consultations: The UWC’s Multimodal Consultations”
Publication: Writing Lab Newsletter, Volume 33, Issue 6
Page Range: 11-15