Dear writing center friends,
I’d like to invite you to participate in a special project. At this year’s IWCA conference, my colleagues and I will be conducting interviews for How We Write, the podcast of the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Here’s an excerpt from our conference proposal:
In 2017, our writing center established a podcast called How We Write. Over the years we’ve interviewed stand-up comedians, university faculty & administrators, filmmakers, musicians, playwrights, and prisoners. In each interview, our interviewers focused on not just what our interviewees write, but how they do it: their writing processes and what shapes them.
During this year’s IWCA conference, we will turn our focus to IWCA members. We will conduct live, in-the-moment interviews during the conference, to see what we can learn about our IWCA community’s own writing processes across the multiverse. The material we gather will be edited and published on the How We Write Podcast in 2024 and compiled into an archive.
We’re also asking interviewees to consider taking part in our IRB-approved research study: The Writing Processes of Post-Undergraduate Writing Center Workers (IRB study 00004893).
To sign up for an interview at the conference, please scan the QR code below. Once you do, I will send you the consent form for the IRB study, and you can decide whether or not to participate in it. If you consent, six months after your interview I will send you a brief survey (11 questions, a combination of Likert, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank) which will be due within a month of receipt. If you prefer not to participate in the study, you can still be interviewed for How We Write.
I’ll share details about the exact location of interviews when that information becomes available. Please feel free to contact me at alicebatt if you have any questions.
Best,
Alice Batt
Assistant Director, University Writing Center
Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric & Writing
University of Texas at Austin
Alice Batt, PhD (she, her)Assistant Director, University Writing Center
Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric & Writing
The University of Texas at Austin
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