ECWCA 1997
Schedule of Sessions

Friday, April 18, 1997

FRIDAY 2:00

Room 1

How Informed Communication Can Enhance Collaborations Between Consultants and ESL Clients in the Writing Center

Laurel Reinking, Indiana University-Purdue Univ Fort Wayne

Tutoring ESL Students with Poor English Skills

Phoebe A. Wiley, Frostburg State University

Room 2

Free Writing, Free Speech, and the Social Basis For Effective Writing Center Tutoring in a Democracy

Michael T. Williamson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Theory, Practice, and the Small Writing Center

Lisa Broush, Jill Henry, Tonya Kaiser, Stephen Murabito, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Room 3

Problem Child: Examining Behavioral Conflicts in the Student-friendly Writing Center

Nick Plunkey, Scott Russell, University of Michigan - Flint

The Writing Center's Role in Educating Faculty & Students: Practical Strategies for Moving the Writing's Center's Image Beyond "Remedial"

Susan K. Hahn, DePauw University

Room 4

Can You Spell Technology?

John T. Ikeda Franklin, Rachelle Jordon, Dale A. Warkentien, Pittsburg State University

Voices From the Writing Center

Mick Kennedy, University of Toledo

Room 5

Co-Theorizing in the Writing Center: Openness as Demanded by Writing Center Theory

John R. Pendell, Jr., DePaul University

The Tutor Mentor Program

Shannon Byrne, Micheil Carlyon, Melissa Misekow, University of Michigan -Flint

Room 6

Writing Centers and Distance Learning

Gail Cummins, University of Kentucky

Building an On-line & On Site Writing and Learning Center for a Self-Contained, Accelerated Adult Education Degree Program

Ruth Newberry, Duquesne University

Room 7--Featured Speaker

What We Know, What We Believe, What We Care About: A Model for Creating Intersections in Your Writing Center

Lea Masiello, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

FRIDAY 3:00

Room 1

Writing Culture Shock

Raja Abu-Jabr, Krista Erceg, Matt Fleckenstein, Nuray Luk-Yilmaz, Ben Rafoth, Sue Zwayer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Room 2

Working on Sentences

Lynn Shelly, Susan Demo, Marianne Davis, University of Pittsburgh

Room 3

Satellite Writing Centers Are Out of This World!

Angelique Grays, Beau Kilmer, Jenna Ravani, Colleen Tremonte, James Madison College of Michigan State Univ

Room 4

Focus on Community: Relationships Between Faculty, Tutors, and Students

Lindsey Dunn, Brian Kern, Ball State University

Room 5

Tutoring Reports: Mirrors on How We Address Writing in the Disciplines

Michael Alderson, Amy Stanton, Kathleen Edwards, Cynthia Smith, Jennifer Wagner, Kathleen A. Welsch, Xavier University

Room 6

Connections: Writing Classrooms, Computer Lab, Students, and Faculty

Judith Merrell, Peggy Roche, Community College of Allegheny County/Boyce

Room 7

Writing Centers: How to Get Started

Harry Winslow, Doreen Varuolo, Karen Marur, Fran Czmerda, Gateway High School

FRIDAY 4:00

Room 1

Learning to Write, Learning to Teach: The Writing Center, Writing Exchanges, and Interdisciplinary Faculty Collaboration

Margaret Stewart, Washburn University

The Challenge of Tutoring the Visually Impaired

Tom Aspell, University of Pittsburgh

Room 2

Philosophy, Ethics, Community and the Writing Center Tutor

Melissa Dunbar, Paul Miller, The Ohio State University

Room 3

(no presentation)

Room 4

The Practice of Writing at Cleveland State University: Discovering and Challenging Student and Faculty Worldviews

Julie Candella, Todd Lundberg, Alynn Makey, Stephanie Nank, Cleveland State University

Room 5

The Evolution of a Tutor Training Program

Aubrey Mitchell, Cliff Racz, Monica Stumpff Purdue University

Room 6

The Computer-Literate Tutor and Re-imagining the Writing Lab

Rex Easley, Gary Vaughn, University of Cincinnati

Room 7--Featured Speaker

Lifting a Leaf from Muriel's Pages: The Benefits of Publishing a High School Writing Center Newsletter

Mary Broglie, Bethel Park Senior High School

FRIDAY 5:00

Room 1

(no presentation)

Room 2

Reimagining Writing Processes

Pat Brison, Joan Huber, Clarion University - Venango Campus

Room 3

Imagining Ourselves as Professionals: Graduate Student Writing Groups Across the Disciplines

Kim Kessler, Sharon Thomas, Michigan State University

Room 4

Evaluating a Writing Center: How Do We Know If We're Doing What We Say We're Doing?

Bob Barnett, University of Michigan-Flint

Timothy Dillon, Dawn Roberts, Monroe County Community College

Dennis Thompson, Macomb Community College

Room 5

New Consultants Working with Basic Writers: Understanding and Negotiating Authority and Responsibility

Carol Roberts, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Room 6

The Role of the World Wide Web in the Writing Center: Recent Programs and Projects of the MSU Writing Center

Danielle DeVoss, Mark Hara, Brad Kik, Michigan State University

Room 7

Directive or Non-Directive: Outside the Binary Opposition

Rollie Barnes, Caroline McKenzie, University of Toledo

FRIDAY 6:00

Room 1

Responding to Bilingual/Bicultural Issues in the Teaching of Writing

Johel Brown, Jeffrey Buchanan, Clare Trimbur, University of Pittsburgh

Room 2

Building Solutions v. Solving Problems: A Social-Work Model for Tutoring

Coray Ames, Matt Forsythe, Rodney Haveman, Jodi Huizinga, Joe Moore, Joel Schickel, Dean Ward, Becky Watkins, Calvin College

Room 3

A Fly on the Wall: Evaluating Tutors

Les Beecher, Jeff Nardecchia, Michael Pavich, Jennifer Williams, Macomb Community College

Room 4

Getting Educated?: Whose Learning What about Writing at Cleveland State

Mike Danko, Kate Francis, Wendy Mauzy, Cleveland State University

Room 5

What Do We Really Mean by "Writing" and "Consulting"? Defining Our Work Through Performance of Collaborative Narratives

Julie Bevins, Jill Johnson, Michigan State University

Room 6

The Dialogic Tutorial-Online

Jason Kuzma, Patricia N. McLaughlin, Lori Rogers, Central Michigan University

Room 7

Sex in the Center: Gender Differences in Tutorial Interactions

Ben Rafoth, Beth Baran, Kristin Stoltenberg, Steve Housenick, Bill Macauley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, April 19, 1997

SATURDAY 9:00

Room 1

Tutor Selection/Training/Utilization/Evaluation in a High School Setting

Cherie Beckman, Barbara Eiserman, Naperville North High School

Room 2

Writing Center as Writing "Cells"

Beth Seetch, Deborah Elliott, Tara Feehan, Shannon Gregg, Joanna Scholl, Lafayette College

Room 3

Making Connections: The University and the High School Collaborate to Institute Peer Consulting

Jaye Bausser, Paul Miller, Ohio State University

Room 4

Tutoring the Two Sided Mind

Joshua L. Sauvie, University of Michigan-Flint

Broadening What We See in Tutorials: Using the MBIT To Look at Student Papers and Respond More Effectively

Becky Bolander, University of Toledo

Room 5

Explaining What We Do--Again: The Multiple Uses of Video Documentation

Rosemary Kurek, Joan Mullin, University of Toledo

Room 6

Addressing ESL Issues: A Panel Discussion on Developing Balanced Tutorial Sessions

Katie Enders, Pam Rice, Karin Sneider, University of Toledo

Room 7--Featured Speaker

Reflective Writing in a Professional Pharmacy Program

Gary Stoehr, University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy

SATURDAY 10:00

Room 1

Building Confidence Through Writing Games

Mary Bement, Denise Stephenson, Sharon Umlor, Robin Ward, Grand Valley State University

Room 2

Coordinating Tutorials with Course Concerns: An "Unofficial " Version of Pitt's GWI

Mary Hall, Univ of Pittsburgh at Titusville

Experiments with Institutional Reform

Jean Grace, Geeta Kothari, Anne Stafford, University of Pittsburgh

Room 3

A Tutors Guide to Contrastive Rhetoric

Erika Daniels, Troy Hicks, Dave Mosher, Jeremy Walts, Michigan State University

Room 4

Training in Transition

Sharon Barnes, Harriet Hancock, University of Toledo

Room 5

A Place of One's Own: Re-Imagining The Connection between Writing Centers and Metaphors of Location

Nels P. Highberg, Ohio State University

Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple-Pie, and . . . Collaboration?

Karen Kopelson, DePaul University

Room 6

Students with Learning Disabilities: Effective Tutoring at the Postsecondary Level

Kevin C. Chaney, University of Michigan-Flint

The Writing Center and Students With Special Needs: We're Not Who You Think We Are

Lou Ann Sears, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Room 7

Tutors Linked to Classes: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Doug Enders, Caroline McKenzie, University of Toledo

SATURDAY 11:00

Room 1

In Defense of the Rules

Jackie Barton, Christine Bruger, Jennifer Donaldson, Andrea Harvey, Sherri D. Zander, Youngstown State University

Room 2

"Pulling Teeth": A Bakhtinian Re-imaging of Group Consulting

Callie Bair, Aimee Brazil, Dawn Hillberg, Keri Hungerford, Angie Lamerato, Michigan State University

Room 3

Borrowing, Adapting, and Developing Handouts for Students

Phoebe A. Wiley, Frostburg State University

A Comparison of Turoring Math, Chemistry, and English Writing in a Cross-Disciplinary Writing Center

Philip T. Greenfield, Jill Lang, University of Michigan - Flint

Room 4

Social and Cultural Considerations Regarding the Role of the Tutor as Interpreter

Theresa Torisky, Bowling Green State University

Room 5

Mythunderstandings: Ways to Clarify Miscommunications among Tutors, Students, and Faculty

Sue V. Lape, Beckey Stamm Columbus State Community College

Room 6

Just a Front or the Real Center? Re-contextualizing Epistemological Debates in Writing Center Theory, Practice and Research

Christopher Crull, Cindy Johanek, Ball State University

Room 7

Getting Published: Academic Articles, Scholarly Books, and Textbooks

Joseph Harris, University of Pittsburgh; CCC Editor

Jean Carr, University of Pittsburgh; Series Editor, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture

Jane Betts, Bedford Books/ St. Martin's Publishing