On Their Own Terms: Writer-Informed Approaches to Writing Center PRAXIS

By: Martini, Rebecca Hallman

Drawing on over 500 surveys and more than 50 interviews with writers across a range of institutional types, this path-finding book focuses specifically on the experiences of writers from under-represented backgrounds.

It presents these experiences through several demographic categories: BIPOC writers, multilingual writers, returning/adult learners, writers with disabilities, and queer writers. While these categories have a wealth of diversity within them, they also enable us to think about the commonalities in experience for certain students. Each chapter focuses on one demographic category, presents writer perspectives/experiences, and provides specific practices for tutors, administrators, and researchers who want to support these kinds of writers.

This book serves as a valuable asset for both new and experienced tutors and administrators of writing. It provides a means for joining the fields discussions of social and linguistic justice with those about supporting under-represented, minority writers, by engaging seriously with what students say about their own experiences and needs as writers in the university.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350604003
• ISBN13: 9781350604001
• Release Date: September 2027
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"