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Our Fall 2011 issue continues the theme of our Spring issue. Praxis invites authors to reflect on the various ways writing centers serve student populations and wider communities. We are concerned that when writing centers are perceived only as writing hospitals, places that universities expect will "fix" student writing, they are more susceptible to budget cuts and funding crises. This makes it difficult for centers to sustain non-directive, non-evaluative consultation practices and to serve large, diverse communities of writers. Praxis understands that, despite common institutional perceptions, many writing centers already assume more than a "triage" role. We welcome articles that describe existing efforts to carve out a broader purview for writing centers, as well as speculative essays about how writing centers help host institutions realize their pedagogical and cultural missions. We are especially interested in how writing centers can raise their institutional profiles. Praxis believes that non-directive consultation practices, outreach initiatives, and extracurricular writing-center work can be powerful and economically savvy ways to bring accolade to universities, colleges, and high schools. We ask contributors to consider how, in the interest of securing funding, writing centers might present such an argument to institutional audiences. Deadline: August 15, 2011 Call for Papers Spring 2012 Issue of Praxis: Multiliteracy and the Writing Center ‹ Call for Papers: Academic Exchange Quarterly, Special issue on Writing Center Theory and Practice
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