Dear Fellow Administrators and Tutors,
I am pleased to announce that the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association is inviting submissions for the fifth issue of Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials.
This archive houses peer-reviewed lesson plans and materials that administrators and tutors can use and modify for training in their centers.
Each issue will center on different consulting topics so that we end up with widespread coverage of content relevant for all writing and learning centers. For the fifth issue, we invite submissions on the following two themes:
1. Training tutors to work with writers and writing from across disciplines
Submissions for this theme must be designed to prepare tutors to work with writers writing in unfamiliar or discipline-specific genres. Proposals might discuss the following:
- how to train tutors to consult on particular genres
- how to learn writing or rhetorical strategies that might transfer across genres or disciplines
- how to gain insight about genre or disciplinary conventions from the writers or other resources in a session
- how to build confidence speaking with writers about unfamiliar content or genres
2. Training tutors to check in with writers through the session
Submissions for this theme must be designed to prepare tutors to assess writers’ understanding and determine whether strategies are working. Proposals might discuss the following:
- how to help tutors know when and how to take time in consultations to check in on writers’ comprehension
- how to be attentive to writers’ verbal and nonverbal cues
- how to determine whether to change the plan for the session based on what the writer finds helpful.
Training tutors to find methods that extend beyond generic strategies when working with neurodivergent writers or in online (synchronous or asynchronous) consultations might also be discussed.
Proposals are due July 15, 2025. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process before being accepted for publication. The issue will be published in January 2026.
For more information about Center Moves and the proposal submission process, please see the RMWCA website.
We look forward to receiving your submissions! Reach out if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Erin Zimmerman
Managing Editor, Center Moves
Erin Zimmerman, PhD
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Writing Center Director
Campus Resource Center (CRC) 216 – Map location
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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