Center Practice.” Clearing House 2 Dec. 1997. ERIC. Elmhurst College Library.,
Elmhurst. 05 Nov. 2007.
The authors of this article take a critical eye to the work that is taking place in writing centers today. In order to prove their point they examine the beliefs that writing centers seem to be founded on. A relatively brief history is given of how writing center process has shifted from post process theory to social constructionism. This seems to have taken place over a relatively short period of time, the article focuses on ideas which were expressed between 1967 and 1997.
Law and Murphy obviously had the goal that they wanted to see formative assessment and writing centers be evaluated together when they wrote this article, it's clear the history presented is arranged so that their goal will make sense. It's hard to believe that the background presented by these authors is all there is on the topic. They do cite names and present terms which are familiar to me from other research so I don't think they've simply made up a history about writing centers.
While this article has some flaws I think it fits the purpose I'm using for it. The article provides a background on the evolution of writing centers taking us reasonably close to present times. The article lays out which theorists fall into which side of the post process theory/social construction debate. The article provides a bibliography which will allow me to expand my source list.
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