The CWE: The Basics
The length of an average CWE appointment
What is 45 minutes?
Based on a blog post we read the second week of class, writers do better in consultations when you build _______ with them, by asking questions, using humor, and emphathizing.
What is rapport?
The practice of breaking down an assignment into smaller parts
What is scaffolding?
What are higher-order concerns?
Where you should generally look if you have questions about consulting
What is the latest version of the Center for Writing Excellence handbook?
This method of writing academic introductions was popularized by the research of John Swales and is a common tool in the CWE
What is the CARS model?
The practice of listening carefully and intently
What is active listening?
Writers need to be taught how to understand the _______-specific features of their majors, so that they can learn to write in their fields.
What is discipline?
CWE appointments that take place virtually online, like a Zoom call
What is a Live Online appointment?
Andrea Lunsford once wrote of the Storehouse Center, where writers view knowledge as exterior to us and directly accessible, and the ________ Center, where knowledge is intrinsic, if we can only access our individual genius.
What is the Garret Center?
The practice of building a writer up from within in order to build their confidence
What is motivational scaffolding?
Rather than give students feedback that simply makes the changes for them, writing center pedagogy emphasizes utilizing THIS word that starts with an "M" to help students understand why they need to make changes
What is metadiscourse?
How much does a consultation at the CWE cost?
What is nothing?
Denny, Nordlof, and Salem found that because they needed to acquire social capital, working-class writers tend to prefer this kind of support in writing center consultations?
What is directive?
Writing center consultants should learn to recognize the features of this word beginning with "g" when consulting on new assignments
What is "genre"?
Teaching writers how to use knowledge from one context in another
The CWE's room number.
What is Allgood Hall E158?
April Baker-Bell's preferred term for "Standard American English"
What is "White Mainstream English"?
What is the student's process?
A philosophy that suggests de-emphasizing standardized academic English in favor of a more egalitarian approach to writing
What is linguistic justice?