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Writing Centers between Past and Future: Outstanding Scholarship Award Texts and Student Success

Schell-Barber, Leah A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585224549661331

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration.
This project uses Hannah Arendt’s concept of gaps to show how writing centers will perpetually be in a state of becoming. The term gap signifies a place in time where there is potential for revolution and transformation and is inadvertently opened revealing things that wouldn’t ordinarily be within view. Through Outstanding Scholarship Award-winning texts, I investigate how writing center identity and conceptions of student success have shifted over time and are currently within a gap between past and future. As writing centers began to professionalize as a legitimate field of study in the 1980s, their focus on student success shifted from supporting institutional expectations for student writers to questioning those expectations in relation to student capital. Additionally, writing center scholars discuss the conflict created by their role as both a student support service within the university and advocate for student success. Each chapter focuses on a different theme found within the scholarship: the conceptualization of student success, research practices within the field, and expectations and realities concerning writing center administrators. Findings suggest that the continuous nature of writing center work provides writing centers with an opportunity to gather new evidence that their efforts affect student success and are a valuable asset in the perpetuation of education for a democratic society.
Natasha Levinson (Advisor)
Tricia Niesz (Committee Member)
Alicia Crowe (Advisor)
211 p.
Education

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  • Schell-Barber, L. A. (2020). Writing Centers between Past and Future: Outstanding Scholarship Award Texts and Student Success [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585224549661331

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schell-Barber, Leah. Writing Centers between Past and Future: Outstanding Scholarship Award Texts and Student Success. 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585224549661331.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schell-Barber, Leah. "Writing Centers between Past and Future: Outstanding Scholarship Award Texts and Student Success." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585224549661331

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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