We start Season 4 of Slow Agency with the team of Write to Remember August 4th from Lebanon. August 4th, 2020 was the day when a large amount of ammonium nitrate exploded at the Port of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. In this episode, organizers, Paula Habre, Serine Jaafar, Hala Daouk, and Anita Moutchoyan, and two of the participants, Aya Taher and Reve Amaneddine, shared their experiences and reflections about the Write to Remember August 4th project.

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Episode Summary:

Slow Agency brings you this special episode where colleagues Stacia Morosky-Rigney and Graham Stowe share the practical writing center advice they give the CWCAB blog readers in their blog series “Dear CWCAB”. Today’s episode is based on the May 2022 DearCWCAB article. The article was responding to a question about WAC and WID. Stacia explains WAC and WID before giving 5 tips:

Episode Show Notes:

For more information about Dear CWCAB, visit wlnjournal.org/blog. If you have a question you would like Stacia and Graham to answer, please email us.

We talked to Drs. Susan Lawrence and Terry Myers Zawacki about their edited collection Re/writing the Center: Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center, published by Utah State University Press in 2019. In our conversation, Susan and Terry highlighted some of the chapters in the edited collection and helped us rethink what it's like to write at the graduate level and how to support graduate student writers in the writing center. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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In October 2021, we interviewed Joe Essid and Brian McTague on the edited collection Writing Centers at the Center of Change, published by Routledge in September 2021. Our conversation focused on change in the context of writing centers and what that means for writing center professionals. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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We spoke with Dr. Noreen Lape in September 2021 about her book Internationalizing the Writing Center: Developing a Multilingual Writing Center, published by Parlor Press in 2020. Lape is Associate Provost of Academic Affairs and directs the Writing Program/Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center at Dickinson College, which offers writing tutoring in eleven languages.

Find resources mentioned in this episode at www.wlnjournal.org/blog

Hello listeners! Thank you for your patience. We're planning to release all episodes of Slow Agency Season 3 in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime, listen to the trailer for a sneak peek.

We chatted with Dr. Violeta Molina-Natera to learn about writing centers in Latin America. She is the director of Javeriano Writing Center at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali in Colombia, and former president of Latin American Writing Centers and Programs Association. Violeta was one of the featured speakers at the 2021 IWCA conference this October. Her talk titled "Are ʻtheyʻ really writing centers? Entering to a community as outsiders to transform it" is available for view on YouTube.

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We invited Dr. Jose Lai and Dr. Allen Ho, who introduced the Peer Tutoring Scheme as part of their English Across the Curriculum effort at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For those who are in the process of conceptualizing, starting, or implementing WAC/EAC initiatives in your institution, we hope you find this episode inspiring! To learn more about the Peer Tutoring Scheme, check out our latest global spotlight piece written by Dr. Lai.

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We chatted with Dr. Rose Richards, Head of the Writing Lab for Stellenbosch University about the writing center landscape in South Africa. In 2011, she co-edited the book Changing Spaces: Writing Centers and Access to Higher Education and co-authored the introduction titled "Writing Centers as Alternate Pedagogical Spaces". She’s also contributed to our blog in 2015. We hope you'll enjoy hearing from our international colleagues. Stay tuned for more next month!

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(Music “Tom Hop”. Recorded by Podcast.Co from the album Keep Calm and Podcast. Downloaded from https://www.podcast.co/music and https://pod.co/keep-calm-and-podcast)

We are chatting with the founder and editor-in-chief of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship and the CWCAB blog. Muriel Harris, or as we affectionately call her ‘Mickey’, is the brains and heart behind the journal and the blog. We are excited to have Mickey tell us about the beginnings of the blog and where she sees the writing center field evolving and internationalizing. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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