PeerCentered Meet the Author Discussions

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PeerCentered is now sponsoring a series of discussion groups with various authors of recent (well mostly recent) writing-center-related texts. The discussions listed below will be held in PeerCentered’s TinyChat space. TinyChat allows audio and video but you can also participate via text chat.

We hope that attendees will have read the books and come prepare with questions to ask or topics to discuss. A moderator will coordinate the discussion and kick us off with some questions, but the driving force behind the discussion will be you.

The purpose of PeerCentered is to promote and foster peer tutoring, so please invite any peer tutors you know to attend.

 Schedule

  • April 8, 2013 2/1/12/11/19 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT: Tell Me How It Reads: Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center with Rebecca Day Babcock (Moderator: Clint Gardner)
  • April 15, 2013 4/3/2/1/23 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): Researching the Writing Center authors Rebecca Day Babcock & Terese Thonus (Moderator: Clint Gardner) 
  • April 18, 2013 2/1/12/11 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): I Hope to Join the Band with Frankie Condon (Moderator: Clint Gardner) 
  • April 22, 2013 2/1/12/11/19 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): The Idea of a Writing Laboratory with author Neal Lerner (Moderator: Clint Gardner) 
  • April 23, 2013 2/1/12/11/19 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): WLN editor Mickey Harris (Moderator: Andrew Rihn) 
  • April 25, 2013 2/1/12/11/19 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): Writing Centers and the New Racism with editors Karen Rowan and Laura Greenfield (Moderator: Clint Gardner) 
  • April 29, 2013 2/1/12/11/19 (E/C/M/PDT/GMT): Facing the Center with Harry Denny (Moderator: Andrew Rihn)

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