The Idea of a Writing Center.
@article{North1984TheIO, title={The Idea of a Writing Center.}, author={Stephen M. North}, journal={College English}, year={1984}, volume={46}, pages={433} }
This is an essay that began out of frustration. Despite the reference to writing centers in the title, it is not addressed to a writing center audience but to what is, for my purposes, just the opposite: those not involved with writing centers. Do not exclude yourself from this group just because you know that writing centers (or labs or clinics or places or however you think of them) exist; "involved" here means having directed such a place, having worked there for a minimum of 100 hours, or…
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