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The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone

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  • © 2016

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  1. Randall W. Monty

    1. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Little Rooms

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 1-15

  3. Discourse as Framework

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 17-38

  4. Discursively Constructing the Session

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 39-61

  5. Decentering Writing in the Institution

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 63-81

  6. Disciplinarity Through Discourse

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 83-100

  7. Writing Center Webspaces as Ecosystem

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 101-129

  8. Discourse as Heuristic

    • Randall W. Monty
    Pages 131-140

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 141-146
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About this book

Writing centers are complex. They are places of scholarly work, spaces of interdisciplinary interaction, and programs of service, among other things. With this complexity in mind, this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and discursive practices. In other words, the things we do and make define who we are and what we value. Through a comprehensive methodological framework grounded in critical discourse analysis, this book takes a closer look at prominent writing center discourses by temporarily shifting attention away from the stakeholders, work, locations, and scholarship of the discipline, and onto things—the artifacts and networks that make up the discipline. Through this approach, we can see the ways the discipline reinforces, challenges, reproduces, and subverts structures of institutional power. As a result, writing center studies can be seen a vast ecosystem of interconnectivity and intertextuality.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA

    Randall W. Monty

About the author

Randall W. Monty is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His scholarly interests include critical discourse studies, writing center studies, border studies, and multimodal and mobile composition. He hopes to add soccer to that list.

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