Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646424352 ISBN 13: 9781646424351

Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2023

Synopsis

In this collection writing program and writing center administrators from a range of academic institutions come together to explore their work through the lens of sensemaking. Sensemaking is an organizational theory concept that enables institutions, supervisors, teachers, tutors, and others to better understand the work they do by using narrative, metaphor, and other theoretical lenses.   The book is divided into two sections: Sensemaking with Tutors and Teachers, and Sensemaking and Institutional Structures. Chapter authors employ several theoretical approaches to sensemaking, ranging from individual experience to institutional history to document design, providing readers with ideas for how to administer and teach within their programs more effectively; how to advocate for their programs within larger university contexts; and how to positively influence the lives and careers of those they work with.   Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers theorizes daily experiences from working lives and suggests problem-solving strategies. Writing program administrators, writing department chairs, and writing center directors, tutors, and staff will find value in its pages.

About this title

About the Author

Rita Malenczyk is professor of English and director of the Writing Program and Writing Center at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is editor of A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, now in its second edition; coeditor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity; and a past president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646424352
• ISBN 13: 9781646424351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Malenczyk Rita