WLN: A JOURNAL OF WRITING CENTER SCHOLARSHIP

Promoting the exchange of voices and ideas
in the one-to-one teaching of writing.

Formerly the Writing Lab Newsletter, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship is a forum for exchanging ideas and information about writing centers in high schools, colleges, and universities.

Articles focus on challenges in tutoring theory and methodology, handling ESL issues, directing a writing center, training tutors, adding computers, designing and expanding centers, and using tutorial theory and pedagogy.

In addition to articles, issues contain conference announcements, book reviews, professional news, and a column by and for tutors. WLN is published bi-monthly from September to June.

CURRENT ISSUE: May & June 2016

"As we bring Volume 40 to a close, we are already looking ahead to bright prospects for good reading next year. In the meantime, if you are looking forward to a few months off campus, we wish you a pleasant, stress-free vacation, free from worrying about budgets, reports, and those small stresses of daily life in a writing center." - Muriel Harris, Editor

Listening in/to the Writing Center: Backchannel and Gaze - Tracy Santa

After the Writing Center Dissertation - Terese Thonus, Sheila Carter-Tod, and Rebecca Babcock

Review of A Synthesis of Qualitative Studies of Writing Center Tutoring, 1983-2006 by Babcock, Manning, and Rogers - Neal Lerner

Tutors' Column: "Playfulness in Discipline: How Punning Witicism is Transforming Criticism in the Writing Center" - Amelia Hall

Tutors' Column: "The First Step: Students' Initial Encounters with the Writing Center" - Madison Sewell