Contents
Foreword | Elizabeth H. Boquet
Introduction | Joseph Cheatle and Megan Swihart Jewell
Part 1: Faculty and Professional Consultants
1. Redefining Training for Faculty Tutors: Practical Strategies for Creating Sustainable Professional Development | Miriam E. Laufer
2. Modular Training for Professional Writing Center Consultants | Fallon N. Allison
3. Examining Assumptions about Training and Development for Writing Center Professional Consultants | Anne Shiell
4. Reading between the Lines: Professional Tutor Training with the Stanislavski System for Actors | Irina Ruppo
5. Professional Tutors, Shifting Identities: Narratives from the Center | Kimberly Fahle Peck, Lisa Nicole Tyson, Amanda Gomez, and Steffani Dambruch
6. Teachers versus Tutors: Is There a Place for Faculty Tutors in a University Writing Center? | Arundhati Sanyal and Kelly A. Shea
7. Between Definitions: Negotiating the Role of Professional Writing Consultants Online | Matthew Sharkey-Smith
8. Faculty and Professional Consultants, the Writing Center, and STEM | Catherine Siemann
Part 2: Graduate Student Consultants
9. When Is a Peer Not a Peer? Negotiating Authority and Expertise in Graduate Student Writing Consultations | Marcus Weakley and Mark Pedretti
10. Integrating Graduate Student Consultants: Community Building in Writing Centers through Onboarding and Mentorship | Genie Giaimo and Joseph Cheatle
11. Critical Mentorship in the Writing Center: Teaching Intentional Kindness and Rhetoric of Respect in Staff Education | Anna Sicari
12. Graduate Tutor Professional Development—and Collaborative Leadership—in an Undergraduate Writing Center | Rebecca Nowacek, Matt Burchanoski, Danielle Clapham, Will Fitzsimmons, Alex Frissell, Lisa Lamson, and Anna Scanlon
13. (Graduate) Friends with Benefits: Writing Relationships into the Center | Elise Dixon and Cassie J. Brownell
14. Making the Invisible Visible: Valuing Labor in the Design of an Observation-Based Mentor Program for Graduate Student Writing Tutors | Alex Wulff
15. Investing in Graduate Tutor Training: A Sustained Approach | Vicki Behrens and Alex Funt
16. Disciplinary Ambassadors in the Graduate Writing Center: A Professional Development Framework for Graduate Consultants from Diverse Fields | Kristin Messuri
17. Genre Knowledge and (Cross)Disciplinary Awareness: Preparing Graduate Consultants to Support Proposals | Elizabeth Festa
18. An Inquiry-Based Approach for Customizing Training for Graduate Student Tutors | Megan Boeshart Burelle and Meagan Thompson
Index
About the Editors
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