New Tropes for Old: Changing the Conversation in Canadian Writing Centres

By Srividya Natarajan

Many of the celebrated and generative tropes that defined the work and self-image of American writing centres—tropes like Stephen North’s “fix-it shop in the basement,” Andrea Lunsford’s “Burkean Parlour,”and Kenneth Bruffee’s “conversation of…

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