WCS Research History

East Central Writing Centers Association (ECWCA) Conference
April 4-6, 2019
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

• Joshua Cianek, “(Re)inventing Social Empowerment: A Writing Center Workshop Model to Promote Community Engagement””
• Natalie Delemeester, “Turning Headwinds into Tailwinds: Assessing Student Dissatisfaction in the Writing Center”
• Samantha Geffert, “Wrighting / Writing / Righting the Way: A Tutor’s Reflective Journals on Her Work in a Regional Prison”
• Emma Kirsch, “’The Knack of Flying’: One Tutor’s Story of Coordinating Two Community Writing Centers”
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “’Don’t you know it’s time for me to fly’: Articulating a Writing Center’s Scope of Work”

Michigan Writing Centers Association (MiWCA) Idea Exchange
October 20, 2018
University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI

• Elissa Lovell and Chris Giroux, “What If Narcissus Worked in the Writing Center?: Using Tutor Self-Reflection to Assess Our Tutors and Our Writing Centers”
• Imari Tetu and Helen Raica-Klotz, “The Myth of the Writing Center Re-Examined: Who We Really Are and What We Really Believe”

East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) Conference
March 23-25, 2018
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

• Josh Atkins and Chris Giroux, “Reflecting on our Work in the Community: A Case Study of One Tutor’s Reflection Journals Detailing His Work in a Regional Prison”
• Samantha Geffert and Renee Okenka, “The Occupational Hazards of Being an International Tutor: Working with Non-Native Speakers of English Abroad”
• Jordan Hessbrook and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Developing a Culture of Mentorship: Models for High School / University Writing Center Partnerships”
• Emma Kirsch, “Reflecting on Language and Its Power to Define: An Investigation of Labeling Non-native Speakers of English in the Writing Center”

Conference on College Composition and Communication
March 14-17, 2018
Kansas City, MO

• Chris Giroux, “Tutoring Training, Efficacy, and Confidence (or, When Grammar Rears Its Ugly Head)"

International Writing Center Association (IWCA) Conference
November 11-13, 2017
Chicago, IL

• Samantha Geffert and Renee Okenka, “Writing Center Double Agents: Reflecting on Work with Non-native English Speakers in Japan and the U.S.”
• Chris Giroux, “Secret Agent/Double Agent: Tutors in the Community Writing Center”
• Madison Martin, “Mission [Not] Impossible: Decoding the Writing Center’s Strategic Plan”
• Helen Raica-Klotz, “A Decoder Ring for the New Tutor: Developing a Model of Tutor Mentorship”

Michigan Writing Centers Association (MiWCA) Idea Exchange
October 22, 2017
Oakland University, Rochester, MI

• Alexa Foor, Jordan Hessbrook, Emma Kirsch, Madison Martin, and Bria Rivet, “Expanding Our Reach/Strengthening Our Mission: Our Community Writing Centers Past, Present, and Future”
• Samantha Geffert, “What Has Been—What Can Be: Reflections on Her Work with Non-Native English Speakers in Japan and the U.S”
• Madison Martin, “(Re) Examining our Writing Center’s Mission: Assessing Students’ Perceptions of our Strategic Plan”

Conference on Community Writing
October 18-21, 2017
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Locally Grown, Locally Produced: The Farmers’ Market Model of a Community Writing Center”

International Conference on The Arts in Society
June 14-16, 2017
American University, Paris, France

• Chris Giroux, “Writing That Matters: Teaching and Tutoring Creative Writing in the Prison and the Community”

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Conference
October 14-16, 2016
Denver, CO

• Josh Atkins and Bria Rivet, “Challenging Uncertainty: The Importance of Reflecting in Community Writing Center Practice” 
• Alison Barger, “Revisiting the ESL Frontier: Tutors’ Perceptions of Working with Multilingual Students in the Writing Center” 
• Kyle Currie, Riley Millard, and Kylie Wojciechowski, “To Boldly Go Where No Writing Center Has Gone Before: Crafting and Implementing a Writing Center’s Strategic Plan” 
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Which Is the True / Truer / Truest Story?: Grammar Instruction in Tutoring Training to Help Develop Better Tutors” 
• Sara Houser, “Re-Examining the OWC Frontier: Developing Best Practices to Tutor Students Online” 
• Helen Raica-Klotz and Chris Giroux (with Mark Latta and Glenn Hutchinson), “After ‘the turn’: Expanding and Sustaining Writing Center Boundaries into our Larger Communities”

Michigan Writing Centers Association (MiWCA) Idea Exchange
October 22, 2016
Macomb Community College, Warren, MI 

• Nik Berkobien, Carly Sawatzki, Zachary Vega, and Catherine Yankley, “When Global Meets Local: How Study Abroad Experiences Shape our Writing Center Tutors’ Practice” 
• Kyle Currie, Riley Millard, and Kylie Wojciechowski, “‘The Ethical Responsibility’: Crafting, Implementing, and Assessing a Writing Center’s Strategic Plan” 
• Sara Houser, “Ensuring Inclusion in Online Tutoring: Evaluating Best Practices in the OWC” 
• Helen Raica-Klotz, “Approaches to Community Engagement in the Writing Center” 
• Kylie Wojciechowski, “Advocating for Student Users: A Template for Conducting Small-Scale Usability Research in the Writing Center” 

National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW)
November 3-6, 2016
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “They/Them = We/Us: Grammar Instruction for Tutors to Promote Inclusive Writing Center Pedagogy”

East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) Conference
March 23-24, 2017
Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI

• Joshua Atkins, Riley Millard, and Chris Giroux,“Community Outreach: The Next Wave in Writing Center Work” 
• Bailey Brown, Alexa Foor, Samantha Geffert, Renee Okenka, and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Navigating the Way: Ways to Peer Mentor New Tutors in the Writing Center” 
• KayLee Davis and Madison Martin, “Swipe Left?: Negotiating Writing Center Identity through our Students’ Eyes” 
• Sara Houser, “Navigating Online Consultations: Developing Best Practices and Strategies for Online Tutoring” 
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, (with Ann Blakeslee, Hillary Degner, Beth Sabo, and Lauren Winton), “Navigating Writing Center Assessment: What Do the Beans Mean for Sustainable Practice?” 
• Kylie Wojciechowski, “Navigating Students’ Experiences with WCOnline®: Preliminary Results and Recommendations of a Usability Study of the WCONLINE® Platform” 

East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) Conference
March 4-5, 2016
University of Mount Hood, Alliance, OH

• Sara Houser, “Measuring the Medium of OWCs: Ensuring Best Practices in Online Tutoring” 
• Bria Rivet, Kylie Wojciechowski, Chris Giroux, and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Multiple Modes, Mediums, and Literacies, But One Mission: Strategic Planning for Your Writing Center” 

National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW)
November 5-8, 2015
Salt Lake City, UT

• Joshua Atkins and Kyle Currie, “Beyond the Blueprint: A Systematic Approach to Evaluating the Space of a Writing Center” 
• Alison Barger, “Making a Space for Honest Conversation: Tutors’ Perceptions of Their ESL Peers” 
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex: Grammar Instruction (and RAD Research) for Writing Center Tutors” 
• Wren Hayes, “A Safe(r) Space: Decentering Heteronormative Tendencies in the Writing Center”
• Maria Vos, Chris Giroux, and Helen Raica-Klotz, “(De)Center to (Re)Center: The Process of Establishing a Community Writing Center

Michigan Writing Centers Association (MiWCA) Idea Exchange
October 17, 2015
Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI

• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Mapping Blurred Lines and Shifting Boundaries: The Process of Establishing a Community Writing Center”

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Conference
October 8-10, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA

• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “‘Often Courageous, Sometimes Ridiculous, Always Strange’: One Writing Center’s Story of Collaboration with the Visual and Creative Arts” 
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “(re)Visiting Lower-Order Concerns: A Research-based Approach to Grammar Instruction for Tutors” 

East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) Conference
April 10-12, 2015
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

• Joshua Atkins and Kyle Currie, “Spaces of Possibility: Exploring the Ethical Settings for Writing Centers” 
• Alison Barger and Helen Raica-Klotz, “‘I Said Do You Speak-a My Language?’: ESL Tutors in the Writing Center” 
• Anthony Betters and Wren Hayes, “A Safer Space: Decentering Heteronormative and Cisnormative Assumptions in the Writing Center”
• Rachael Blaylock, “The Ethics of Advertising: A Guide for Writing Center Marketing” 
• Hillary Degner and Kylie Wojciechowski, “Our Field of Dreams’: A Model for Supporting Undergraduate Tutor Research” 
• Riley Millard and Jenni Putz, “A Symbiotic Relationship?: The Ethics of First-Year Writing’s Role in Tutor Training"
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Guess Who’s Coming to Tutor: The Role of Faculty in the Writing Center” 
• Maria Vos, “A Matter of Building Bridges: Ethical Practices for Tutoring Graduate-Level Non-Native English Speakers”

Michigan Student Success Conference
February 11-13, 2015
Oakland University, Troy, MI

• Helen Raica-Klotz and Chris Giroux, “Developing Writers: The Role of Embedded Tutors in Developmental Writing Classrooms”

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) Joint Conference
October 30-November 1, 2014
Orlando, FL 

• Chris Giroux, “The Arrival of the New Tutor: Re-Imagining Peer Mentoring Programs”

Michigan Writing Centers Association (MiWCA) Idea Exchange
October 25, 2014
Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI 

• Hillary Degner and Kylie Wojciechowski, “On the Other Side of the Table: When a Tutor Has a Learning Disability or Mental Health Illness, What Happens Then?” 
• Chris Giroux and Helen Raica-Klotz, “The Art of Balance: Bringing Faculty into the Writing Center” 
• DeQuan Hill, Ken’Niesha Marshall, Breanna Johnson, Helen Raica-Klotz, Taeler Singleton, and Ka Vang, “Developing Writers: The Role of Embedded Tutors in the Developmental Writing Classroom” 
• Allyson Poag and Catherine Yankley, “Good Writers and/or Good Readers: How Tutors Can Benefit from Learning Reading Comprehension Strategies” 
• Maria Vos and Chris Giroux (with Kim Ballard et al.), “Michigan Test for Teacher Certification Professional Readiness Exam-Writing: Responses from Our Centers” 

East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) Conference
March 28-29, 2014
Miami University, Oxford, OH 

• Crystal Brinson, Zack Gibson, Helen Raica-Klotz, and Taeler Singleton, “Embedded Tutoring in Developmental Writing Classrooms: Using Our History to Create a Better Future” 
• Hillary Degner and Kylie Wojciechowski, “On the Other Side of the Table: When a Tutor Has a Learning Disability or Mental Health Illness, What Happens Then?” 
• Scott Merrow, Helen Raica-Klotz, and Scott Umberfeld, “Marketing Your ‘Field of Dreams’: Using Media and Technology to Attract the Next Generation of Writing Center Users” 
• Maria Vos and Helen Raica-Klotz, “Educating and Nurturing Our Next Generation of Writers: The Role of Tutor Mentorship in the Writing Center” 

Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference
October 2013
Skokie, IL 

• Hillary Degner, Samantha Jackson, Allison Sterken, and Kylie Wojciechowski, “Riding the L to Learning: Training New Tutors to Learn and Grow in the Writing Center”