Boquet & Lerner (2008)

According to the authors, WCs have traditionally been placed in undesirable locales

and associated with grammar drills.

• True

• False

According to the authors, in The Idea of the Writing Center, Stephen North calls on

English Departments to give WCs the place they deserve both

physically and metaphorically.

• True

• False

According to the authors, WCs have their own journal, the Writing Centers Journal, but

this has not had a lot of recognition. Instead, authors have

preferred College English or College Composition and

Communication, produced by the National Council of Teachers

of English.

• True

• False

According to the authors, most everyone agrees that our job as tutors is to produce

better writing, not better writers.

• True

• False

The authors proposed that, for WC scholars, the goal is to make sure that writers, and not

necessarily their texts, are what gets changed by instruction.

• True

• False

According to the authors, the WC’s main concern has to be with meaning.

• True

• False

According to the authors, WCs are recognized as pedagogical sites, not as intellectual

sites, that is why we need to do an publish research on what we

do.

• True

• False

According to the authors, research that we do in WCs can help us improve practice and

defend that practice to a skeptical audience.

• True

• False

According to the authors, WCs are not fix-it shops.

• True

• False