Research
Students have used the center as a site for theses and dissertation work. Writing Center staff have also presented at writing center conferences and published articles and book chapters.
Theses and Dissertations
Amber Buck
- MA thesis, 2005: Keyboard collaborations: a case study of power and computers in writing center tutoring
- Article: “The Invisible Interface: MS Word in the Writing Center” Computers and Composition
25.4 (2008): 396-415—Amber observed how tutoring changes when done in
front of a computer. She uses observation, video, and screen capture
software to analyze several tutoring sessions and realizes the impact
of MS Word on tutoring writing.
Carol Chalk
- PhD dissertation, 2004: Gertrude Buck in the Writing Center: A Tutor Training Model to Challenge Nineteenth-Century Trends.
Conference Presentations
Sarah Burns
- "Places Everyone: Sustaining Writing Center Places," East Central Writing Center Association, 2009, with Claire Lutkewitte and Emily Standridge
Phillip Call
- "Exploring the Writing Center's Convergence with Social Capital," East Central Writing Center Association, 2010, with Emily Standridge and Dani Weber
Neal Coleman
- "Convergence of the Ball State Writing Center and the Wider Campus Community: The Effect of Increased Advertising on Demand for Writing Center Services," East Central Writing Center Association, 2010
Tyler Gobble
- "Creative Writing and the Writing Center: Finding the Converging Point," East Central Writing Center Association, 2010
Claire Lutkewitte
- "Places Everyone: Sustaining Writing Center Places," East Central Writing Center Association, 2009, with Sarah Burns and Emily Standridge
Emily Standridge
- "Places Everyone: Sustaining Writing Center Places," East Central Writing Center Association, 2009, with Sarah Burns and Claire Lutkewitte
- "Exploring the Writing Center's Convergence with Social Capital," East
Central Writing Center Association, 2010, with Phillip Call and
Dani Weber
- "Epic Fail: Research on Sessions Gone Awry," International Writing Center Association Collaborative at CCCC, 2010, with Jackie Grutsch McKinney and Dani Weber
Dani Weber
- "Exploring the Writing Center's Convergence with Social Capital," East
Central Writing Center Association, 2010, with Phillip Call and Emily Standridge
- "Epic Fail: Research on Sessions Gone Awry," International Writing
Center Association Collaborative at CCCC, 2010, with Jackie Grutsch
McKinney and Emily Standridge
Articles and Other Publications
Claire Lutkewitte
Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Writing Center director
Journal Articles
- “New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print.” Writing Center Journal 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51. [Forthcoming.]
- “Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces.” Writing Center Journal. 25.2 (Fall 2005): 6-20.
- “Inventing a Teacherly Self: Positioning Journals in the TA Seminar.” (Co-authored with Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater). WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators 27.1/2 (2003): 59-74.
- “The American Scholar Writes the New ‘Research’ Essay.” The Journal of Teaching Writing 20.1/2 (2002): 71-86. [acceptance 2003; actual printing fall 2004]
Book Chapters
- “New
Media (R)evolution: Multiple Models for Multiliteracies” in
Multiliteracy Centers: Re-Centering with New Media. Eds. David Sheridan
and James Inman. Hampton Press, Forthcoming.
- “A Portable
Ecology: Supporting New Media and Laptop-Ready Pedagogy at Ball State.”
(co-authored with Kris Fleckenstein and Fred Johnson). Technological
Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Eds.
Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe. Computers and
Composition Digital Press, 2009.
- “‘Fitness for the Occasion’:
How Context Matters for JWPAs.” (Co-authored with Paul Ranieri) in
Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional
Practices and Politics. Eds. Alice S. Horning and Debra Frank Dew.
Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor
Press, 2007.