This presentation and paper offer a political rationale for the Purdue Writing Lab Repository project.  It discusses the need to make writing center research institutionally viable, and how the repository can contribute both to preserving and disseminating writing center scholarship and to presenting writing center administration as institutional research

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Purdue UniversityPurdue e-PubsPurdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL GraduateStudent Presentations Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL3-28-2014Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The PoliticalRationaleEllery J. SillsPurdue University, esills@purdue.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/writinglabgradpresPart of the Rhetoric and Composition CommonsThis document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@purdue.edu foradditional information.Recommended CitationSills, Ellery J., "Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale" (2014). Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL GraduateStudent Presentations. Paper 4.http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/writinglabgradpres/4Increasing  Wri,ng  Center  Visibility:  The  Poli,cal  Ra,onale	  Ellery	  Sills	  Purdue	  University	  ECWCA	  2014:	  Oxford,	  OH	  Repository  Goals:• Help	  demonstrate	  the	  scholarly	  nature	  of	  wriEng	  center	  work	  • Expand	  what	  counts	  as	  wriEng	  center	  research	  	  (Rhetorical	  Exigency	  =	  Make	  our	  research	  visible!)	  	  Why  The  Struggle  for  Visibility  Persists• Prevailing	  service	  model	  myths	  • AdministraEve	  aHracEon	  to	  service	  myths	  • “If	  we	  define	  ourselves	  only	  as	  what	  we	  are	  not,	  we	  cannot	  be	  much,	  to	  ourselves	  or	  to	  others”	  (Enriquez,	  Haviland,	  Olson	  and	  Pizurie)	  Scholarly  Research1)  Scholarly	  Presenta1ons:	  Previously	  unpublished	  conference	  presentaEons	  or	  workshops	  formally	  presented	  at	  academic	  conferences	  2)  Theses	  and	  Disserta1ons:	  WriEng	  Lab	  research	  conducted	  by	  Purdue	  graduate	  students/alumni	  3)  Workshops:	  Brown	  bag	  series,	  in-­‐lab	  workshops,	  open	  aHendance	  workshops,	  requested	  or	  solicited	  workshops	  Wri,ng  Center  Administra,on  as  ResearchWriEng	  center	  administraEon	  =	  “localized,	  contextualized	  inquiry	  in	  which	  a	  director	  studies	  aspects	  of	  his	  or	  her	  own	  center	  as	  part	  of	  the	  process	  of	  shaping	  the	  wriEng	  center”	  (Harris	  76)	  Wri,ng  Center  Administra,on  as  Research“Offering	  ‘research’	  publicaEons	  as	  the	  only	  evidence	  of	  wriEng	  center	  work	  does	  not	  really	  reconceptualize	  the	  sites	  for	  intellectual	  projects	  or	  force	  the	  reevaluaEon	  of	  nontradiEonal	  materials	  as	  evidence	  of	  intellectual	  work…evaluaEon	  [of	  intellectual	  work]	  ought	  to	  be	  based	  on	  wriHen	  documents	  that	  wriEng	  centers	  rouEnely	  produce”	  (Marshall	  76)	  Administra,ve  Research1)  Annual	  Reports	  2)  WriEng	  Lab	  Histories	  (WriHen	  and	  Oral)	  3)  Training	  Materials	  4)  PromoEonal	  Materials	  5)  Data	  Sets	  6)  Technical	  Reports	  

Increasing Writing Center Visibility:  The Political Rationale

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Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale

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