columns

From the Editors      
The Praxis Editorial Board

Authority and Cooperation: Five Views from Writing Center Directors
Patricia Burns and James Jesson

Strategies for Editing and Sentence-Level Consulting
Kimberley Hoffman, Kanaka Sathasivan, Scott Blackwood, and Lisa Leit

The Merciless Grammarian

focus articles

Affirmations: How to Inspire Students to Revise
Carol Hawkins

Centering the Writer or Centering the Text: A Meditation on a Shifting Practice in Writing Center Consultations
Matthew Ortoleva

Looking On and Overlooking: An Analysis of Oversight in Tutor Training
Lori B. Baker

Problems with Bruffee: Post-Process Theory and Writing Center Opposition
Tom Truesdell

The Problem with Email: Working to Decentralize Consultant Authority in the Online Writing Center
Andrea Ascuena and Julia Kiernan 

Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Non-Directive Instructional Debate
Steven J. Corbett

Consulting

Consultant Spotlight

So Rudely Forced: Student Writers, Course Requirements, and the Writing Center
Glenda Conway

Overcoming the Girl Tutor Complex: Gender Differences in the Writing Center
Samantha Mudd

When Roles Collide: On Being a Writing Center Tutor and Composition Instructor
Elizabeth Chilbert