Writing Centers and Learning Commons

Steven J. Corbett is director of the University Writing Center and associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. He is the author of Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies and coeditor of Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Theory and Practice in Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom; Student Peer Review and Response: A Critical Sourcebook; and Writing in and about the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching. His articles on writing and rhetoric pedagogy have appeared in a variety of journals, periodicals, and collections.Teagan E. Decker is professor of English and dean of the Esther G. Maynor Honors College at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. She served as writing center director at UNCP from 2007 to 2014. Her most recent publication is the coedited collection Writing In and About the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching.Maria L. Soriano Young is an assistant vice president at Dix & Eaton, working as a specialist in writing, editing, and communications. Previously, she spent eleven years in higher education at John Carroll University, where she was the writing center director, and worked in healthcare as a communication manager at Cleveland Clinic. She is also an experienced freelance editor who has worked across a number of industries.

“A valuable and timely contribution to the field. This is important, even if risky, work. Clearly, it is time for this book—one that recognizes the benefits and drawbacks of a wide range of locations but ultimately argues that the assumption that writing centers belong in English departments is not only outdated but also, often, limiting.”—Rebecca Hallman Martini, University of Georgia