Dear Writing Center Scholars:
Please, find below a link to our call for contributions to The Future of Writing Centers, to be published in the digital collections offered by WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship and freely accessed on the WAC Clearinghouse website. The Digital Edited Collections are focused on topics relevant to the field of writing center studies. These multimodal texts, which are rich with graphics, links to sources, videos, and teaching resources, extend learning beyond printed texts. In addition to its enhanced ability to engage and educate readers, this digital scholarship is accessible to international audiences and easily shareable through digital links.
The theme of this WLN DEC volume, the future of writing centers, was the theme of the very successful 2024 European Writing Centers Association Conference. Though Franziska Liebetanz (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)), in a special English-language edition of Journal für Schreibwissenschaft, is leading on the topic as it pertains to writing centers in Europe, this call asks for chapter proposals that reflect on how those wider contextual exigencies and affordances of neoliberal policies in higher education have led writing center administrators and practitioners everywhere—North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia—to question or re-think their writing center’s identity, the identity of the field as a whole, and the direction their writing center is, or writing centers in general are, taking or should be taking. How has your writing center responded to these difficulties and possibilities? How have these neoliberal techniques changed who we are, how we see ourselves, what we do and how we do it? What is the way forward? We are particularly interested in chapter proposals that examine the author’s own writing center or writing centers more broadly through the lens of globalization, emerging technologies, or pedagogical innovations. Impact on centers resulting from other techniques of neoliberalism will be entertained, but our focus will be on these three areas of impact.
Nuts and bolts:
- For this DEC, we seek 500-word proposals for book chapters with an explanation on how you plan to integrate multimodal elements into your manuscript. Multimodal elements should not simply be add-ons but essential complements to the author’s ideas and argument.
- Chapters should be between 4,000-6,000 words.
Schedule:
- Proposal due date: January 10, 2025
- Invitation to submit chapters by March 3, 2025
- Submit chapter drafts by: July 19, 2025
Please, see the full call here.
We look forward to reading your proposals.
Kind regards, Lawrence
Lawrence Cleary
Director Regional Writing Centre
C1065 Main Building
University of Limerick,
Limerick, Ireland V94 T9PX