Academic Writing

This comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for developing and refining your tutoring techniques. It addresses the dual role of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars.

Key Features:
- Practical tutoring strategies
- Reflections on teaching philosophies
- Case studies and real-world scenarios

An invaluable resource for understanding the nuances of graduate-level academic writing across various disciplines.

Key Topics:
- Understanding audience and purpose
- Academic genres and conventions
- Task-based methodology
- Analytical group discussions
- Positioning oneself as a junior scholar

This book addresses the unique challenges of supporting advanced graduate writers in the writing center context.

Key Insights:
- Adapting writing center pedagogies for graduate students
- Navigating the divide between traditional and advanced writing support
- Strategies for targeted graduate writing assistance

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center--that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on their writing--McKinney shines light on other representations of writing center work. McKinney argues that this grand narrative neglects the extent to which writing center work is theoretically and pedagogically complex, with ever-changing work and conditions, and results in a straitjacket for writing center scholars, practitioners, students, and outsiders alike. Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers makes the case for a broader narrative of writing center work that recognizes and theorizes the various spaces of writing center labor, allows for professionalization of administrators, and sees tutoring as just one way to perform writing center work. McKinney explores possibilities that lie outside the grand narrative, allowing scholars and practitioners to open the field to a fuller, richer, and more realistic representation of their material labor and intellectual work.