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- Title: Writing Center Dynamics: Coordinating Multimodal Consultations: The Uwc's Multimodal Consultations (University Writing Center)
- Author : Writing Lab Newsletter
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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Steven Johnson sees the machine not as an attachment to our bodies, but as an environment, a space to be explored (24). Likewise, the spaces that our writing centers now inhabit need exploration and explanation. Although as writing center practitioners and scholars we understand that we cannot necessarily replicate face-to-face (f2f) consultations in virtual writing spaces or even over the phone, our goal at the University of Central Florida (UCF) was to integrate these types of consultations into our existing system without compromising our mission statement and consulting philosophies. The synchronous nature of phone and online consultations supports the University Writing Center's (UWC) mission of helping to "foster the community of scholarship and shared leadership at UCF through peer consulting, a form of collaborative learning which involves students in each other's intellectual and academic development." The University Writing Center is a nonremedial peer consultant service for undergraduate and graduate students at UCF. Consultants work with writers at every stage of the writing process--from the prewriting stage to finalizing revisions. In addition to our large main campus in Orlando, FL, UCF also has multiple regional campuses and several specialty campuses, including a hospitality management campus, film and digital media campus, and a health sciences campus, which will also include the new College of Medicine. As we added complexity to our busy face-to-face consultation services, it became necessary that we expand the UWC to keep up with UCF's growing student population of more than 48,000, as I discussed in "Using RoCs to Inform New Training Methods," a preliminary discourse analysis based on our pilot online writing lab, KnightOWL ("Using RoCs" 10).
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