Writing Center Research Book

	About the Authors and Editors
	Preface
	Introduction
I	Writing Centers as Sites of Self-Reflective Inquiry	1
1	The Call to Research: Early Representations of Writing Center Research	3
2	Disciplinary Action: Writing Center Work and the Making of a Researcher	23
3	Beyond the House of Lore: Wcenter as Research Site	39
4	Insider as Outsider: Participant Observation as Writing Center Research	53
II	Writing Centers as Sites of Institutional Critique and Contextual Inquiry	73
5	Writing Center Administration: Making Local, Institutional Knowledge in Our Writing Centers	75
6	Reading Our Own Words: Rhetorical Analysis and the Institutional Discourse of Writing Centers	91
7	Student-Centered Assessment Research in the Writing Center	111
8	Capturing Complexity: Using Grounded Theory to Study Writing Centers	133
9	The Portfolio Project: Sharing Our Stories	149
10	Computer Literacies and the Roles of the Writing Center	167
III	Writing Centers as Sites of Inquiry Into Practice	187
11	Seeing Practice Through Their Eyes: Reflection as Teacher	189
12	The Return of the Suppressed: Tutoring Stories in a Transitional Space	203
13	The Subject is Literacy: General Education and the Dialectics of Power and Resistance in the Writing Center	221
14	Why Feminists Make Better Tutors: Gender and Disciplinary Expertise in a Curriculum-Based Tutoring Program	235
	Author Index	259
	Subject Index	263