The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges. Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1143/thumbnail.jp

A Sense of Community: Collaboration & Interdependency in a Communication-Rich Anthropology Class

A large introductory anthropology course at Utah State University was organized to promote collaboration among and between students and faculty. Students were divided into and worked in clans for the entire term. A study of the course suggests that learning and a sense of community resulted directly from this organization

A Sense of Community: Collaboration in a Large Anthropology Class

Having somebody count on you is what collaboration is all about. However, putting students in groups may not result in cooperative learning if the groups are not carefully structured, with the professor providing the framework on which to build cooperation