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Writing Program and Writing Center Collaborations

Transcending Boundaries

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Overview

  • Focuses on programmatic collaboration that enrich writing programs and writing centers

  • Argues for the applicability of recent research on complex collaborative practices to the different forms of collaboration that are often enacted by writing programs and centers

  • Reports on the benefits and challenges that arise during collaborative work involving writing programs and writing centers in primary roles

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About this book

This book demonstrates how to develop and engage in successful academic collaborations that are both practical and sustainable across campuses and within local communities. Authored by experienced writing program administrators, this edited collection includes a wide range of information addressing collaborative partnerships and projects, theoretical explorations of collaborative praxis, and strategies for sustaining collaborative initiatives. Contributors offer case studies of writing program collaborations and honestly address both the challenges of academic collaboration and the hallmarks of successful partnerships. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA

    Alice Johnston Myatt

  • English Department, Georgia State University, Georgia, USA

    Lynée Lewis Gaillet

About the editors

Alice Johnston Myatt is Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, USA. Myatt develops and teaches composition classes, is Academic Coordinator for the minor in Professional Writing, and chairs the planning team for the department’s annual Transitioning to College Writing Symposium.


LynĂ©e Lewis Gaillet is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Georgia State University, USA.  She is author of numerous articles and book chapters addressing Scottish rhetoric, writing program administration, composition/rhetoric pedagogy, publishing matters, and archival research methods. She is a recipient of an NEH Summer Research Award and ISHR Fellowship.

 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Writing Program and Writing Center Collaborations

  • Book Subtitle: Transcending Boundaries

  • Editors: Alice Johnston Myatt, LynĂ©e Lewis Gaillet

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59932-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59931-5Published: 10 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59932-2Published: 27 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics

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