A pedagogical approach that focuses on the stages of writing: prewriting, writing, revision, and edition.
What is writing as a process?
100
asking the writers what they'd like to focus on during the session
What is setting the agenda?
100
gap between what we know and what we need to know
What is a research problem?
100
uses numbers for data and is typically collected by unobtrusive means (surveys or corpus)
What is quantitative research?
200
where faculty, staff, and students make appointments
What is WCOnline?
200
In 1977, the first issue of this periodical was published. It focused on concerns of writing center administrators.
What is the Writing Lab Newsletter?
200
means thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
200
this is how you make sense of the data you collected
What is interpretation?
200
Uses words as its data and might be conducted within the natural setting, where the studied event or people naturally are.
What is qualitative research?
300
face-to-face, meet online, e-tutoring
What are the types of appointments offered?
300
A term used to loosely describe pedagogical approaches that prioritize the correction of local error.
What is current-traditional?
300
Focuses on writing as a whole, its ability to communicate with the reader, and its overall effect
What is global issues or higher order concerns?
300
the degree to which your study would yield the same results each time
What is reliability?
300
a group of people on campus that reviews research approvals to ensure that no harm will come to the participants in the study.
What is IRB (institutional review board)?
400
the month and year the UWC moves into its own space in Joyner library
What is April 2013?
400
This movement in the 1960s and 1970s is one reason why more universities opened writing centers.
What is open admissions?
400
a learning situation where a more knowledgeable/experienced learner guides another learner through a complex task by breaking it down into parts and building upon those parts
What is scaffolding?
400
this bibliographic book synthesizes qualitative research on tutoring
What is A Synthesis of Qualitative Studies of Writing Center Tutoring 1983-2006?
400
Planned inquiry with systematic data collection, analysis, and reporting.
What is empirical inquiry?
500
the year the UWC and FYWS/Bate Center separate into two entities
What is 2000?
500
these theories help us understand the commonalities among writers and writing processes
What are centripetal theories?
500
This approach emphasizes the ways in which writers create new meaning collaboratively.
What is social constructivist?
500
_____ is the overarching theory guiding your study whereas _____ are the tools or strategies used to collect data
What is methodology and methods?
500
plotting out three intersecting circles that are labeled according to topics