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Noise From The Writing Center

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Published/Copyright: 2002

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In Noise from the Writing Center, Boquet develops a theory of "noise" and excess as an important element of difference between the pedagogy of writing centers and the academy in general. Addressing administrative issues, Boquet strains against the bean-counting anxiety that seems to drive so much of writing center administration. Pedagogically, she urges a more courageous practice, developed via metaphors of music and improvisation, and argues for "noise," excess, and performance as uniquely appropriate to the education of writers and tutors in the center.

Personal, even irreverent in style, Boquet is also theoretically sophisticated, and she draws from an eclectic range of work in academic and popular culture-from Foucault to Attali to Jimi Hendrix. She includes, as well, the voices of writing center tutors with whom she conducted research, and she finds some of her most inspiring moments in the words and work of those tutors.

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"The different model that I am working toward is a higher-risk/higher-yield model for writing-center work. . . . [It] asks us to reformulate the question "what do tutors need to know?" and to cast it, instead, in more musical terms: how might I encourage this tutor to operate on the edge of his or her expertise? And, for tutors: where is the groove for this session? Where's the place where, together, we will really feel like we're jammin' and how do we get there?"
Elizabeth Boquet

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Prologue

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    Introduction

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    1 Tutoring As (Hard) Labor

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    2 Channeling Jimi Hendrix

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    3 Toward A Performative Pedagogy In The Writing Center

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    4 Conclusion

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    Notes

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    References

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    Index

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    About The Author

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