Rhetorical Media and the Twenty First Century Open-Access Writing Center: Predictions, Predilections, and Realities

“One of the results of not being prepared to help students with their functional technological literacy in the creation of new media texts is that others will step into that role.  Students need to know how to use programs, and the need becomes intensified when the new media text is a high-stakes assignment” --Jackie Grutsch McKinney

About the Author
Clint Gardner directs the Salt Lake Community College Student Writing Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He currently serves as Secretary of the Two-year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of English. He also served as President of the International Writing Centers Association. His writing center research and development include the work of peer writing tutors in a community college writing center and the use of online resources to bring writing center services who cannot attend the Student Writing Center in person. One the most important aspects of his writing center work is to support and offer feedback to the student writers who come to the SLCC Student Writing Center, as well as to the SLCC Students who work as peer writing consultants in the Center.

 

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