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February 22, 2019

From the (Writing) Center to the Edge: Moving Writers Along the Internet (1995)

The Internet, an electronic network linking computers throughout the world, invites teachers to explore its uses for writing instruction because it is a text-based environment. Users communicate by writing messages that travel out onto the Internet, read the prose in its vast pool of resources, and gather information from those resources for their own writing.

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February 22, 2019

From Place to Space: Perceptual and Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center (1995)

Online conferencing, including both synchronous and asynchronous exchanges, started in the composition classroom and moved to the writing center. Writing centers, no longer limited to face-to-face encounters, have begun exploring the potential of electronic conferencing.

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February 22, 2019

E-mail Tutoring, a New Way to Do New Work (1995)

Although writing centers have used computers for over a decade now, they have used them primarily in autotutorials (computer-assisted instruction) and for word processing. These applications reflect the influence of the process movement in composition studies and the writing center’s commitment to the individual writer.

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February 22, 2019

Tutoring in Cyberspace: Student Impact and College/University Collaboration (1995)

The Writing Center Consultation Project is a collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State Community College (RSCC) in Tennessee. Undergraduate RSCC students e-mail drafts of their essays to graduate students at UALR who then return the drafts through e-mail along with comments.

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February 22, 2019

MOOving Along the Information: Writing Centers in Cyberspace (1995)

It has always seemed to us that all writing takes place in a kind of virtual reality involving one’s vision, one’s ideas, and one’s voice. When viewed in this manner, creating a writing center in Cyberspace is not a particularly alien concept.

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February 22, 2019

Online Tutor Training: Synchronous Conferencing in a Professional Community (1995)

Daedalus Interchange, an online synchronous conferencing program, fits well with writing center tutor training philosophies that are based on the social and dynamic construction of knowledge with each member of a community having a voice.

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February 22, 2019

Online Writing Labs (OWLs): A Taxonomy of Options and Issues (1995)

Keywords cyberspace writing centers, online writing centers, Online Writing Lab (OWL, )tutoring online, computers in writing centers, Internet resources in writing centers, electronic writing services Abstract As increasing numbers of writing centers consider instituting Online Writing Labs (OWLs) as adjuncts to existing tutorial services, careful planning decisions must be made about the nature, purpose, and …

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February 22, 2019

A Dialogue on OWLing in the Writing Lab (1994)

Writing centers have the freedom, flexibility—perhaps even the responsibility—to fly a bit freer into the future and to test the waters of new ways to interact with writers. One of those ways, which some of us are now exploring, is electronic tutoring, that is, connecting to stu-dents in other locations via computers.

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February 22, 2019

An Ethical Question about On-line Tutoring in the Writing Lab (1994)

The recent advent of on-line computer network tutoring, however, raises an important question about tutors’ interactions with students who are having this conceptual kind of writing difficulty. The Online Writing Lab (OWL), a new service of the Purdue University Writing Lab, for example, provides students across campus with the opportunity to ask questions about writing and then to receive a response from a tutor, usually within a day.

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February 22, 2019

Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring (1994)

In the spring of 1993 I got this great idea: why not turn a writing tutorial into an actual writing tutorial? So often writing center tutorials have nothing to do with the act of writing. Students read aloud, make conversation, do some editing or planning. but rarely compose or communicate in writing.

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