Playing with Reality: Writing Centers after the Mirror Stage

Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration

“…One productive possibility of border consciousness is how it lets us see consultations as what Nancy Welch (1999) called "potential spaces" (p. 54). These potential spaces, Welch argued, do not necessarily arise out of full-adherence-to or full-resistance-to academic expectations and conventions, but, rather, out of queering hegemonic systems of space to find liminal borderland-room to create, experiment, and play.…”

The dynamic ecology of the writing process and agency: a corpus-based comparative case study of stancetaking among native speakers and non-native speakers of English in first-year composition conferences

“…Rather than imposing knowledge as absolute and firm from above, the writing conference may instead bring it into play and interrogation, Welch (1999) argues, by opening new possibilities and deconstructing what the writer may have taken for granted. In a spirit of playfulness and inquiry, students and teachers may discover new methods, approaches, and ideas.…”