Dear writing center friends and allies:
The WLN editorial team is pleased to announce the first issue of the 26-27 academic year. Volume 51 Issue 1 (2026) of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship is now available. We are open access! The full issue is available here: https://wacclearinghouse.org/wln/
We are especially delighted to bring this issue to you, as WLN has a new look! We want to thank Khawar Latif Khan, who designed the new template while serving as a WAC Clearinghouse McLeod Follow, and Kamila Albert, WLN’s new publication editor, who brought this first issue with our new design into being!
Each chapter in this issue focuses on a particular way of reframing our work in the writing center: the importance of the writing process for graduate students, ways of being with writers, how we work with generative AI, code meshing as a consulting strategy, and the role of session notes in the tutoring process.
Our authors and chapters are:
Daniel Hengel and David Hershinow — “Reframing Graduate Writing Support: Adopting a Process-Oriented Mindset”
Rasha Alkhateeb and Faith Thompson — “Tutors’ Pathways to Liberation: A Dialogic Inquiry in the Writing Center”
Bonnie Devet — “Introductory Training for Writing Center Consultants Helping Students with ChatGPT”
Jack Scantland (tutor column) — “I’m Not Stupid, I’m from Kentucky: Code Meshing and the Need for Linguistic Empathy in Academic Writing”
Elizabeth Bunker (tutor column) — “Modifying the Practice of Tutor Session Summaries: A Case Study”
Please enjoy the hard work of our authors and editorial team!
Best,
Julia Bleakney on behalf of the WLN Editorial Team
JuliaBleakney
Director, The Writing Center, and Associate Professor of English
Center for Writing Excellence, Elon University
Coeditor, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship
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