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Writing Centers Around the World
The English Writing Corner at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Molly McHarg, Prokriti Das Srishti, and Sadia Sarker Aony on their new writing center at the University of Dhaka! In this writing center spotlight, our new colleagues inquire about writing center administration questions and share their plans to serve a linguistically and culturally diverse community of writers. Please leave comments to encourage and welcome them to our blog community. Thank you so much for sharing your work, Prokriti, Sadia, and Dr. McHarg!
The University of Ghana-Carnegie Writing Centre
The University of Ghana-Carnegie Writing Centre began operation in 2012 and was formally opened in October 2013 by the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Prof. Ernest Aryeetey. Over its decade-old existence, the UG-Carnegie Writing Centre has served the entire University of Ghana community, including undergraduate and post-graduate students, academic faculty and other staff, as well as to individuals, institutions such as the University for Development Studies, and corporate bodies in the country such as Tullow Oil and the Northern Electricity Company (NEDCO).
Faculty of Health Sciences Writing Lab: University of Cape Town
The Writing Lab was established in 2015, unintentionally coinciding with the rise of student activism movements, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall. These called strongly for a transformed, decolonial, and Afrocentric approach to economically, culturally, and epistemologically accessible tertiary education in South Africa. Although some experienced this as an attack on academic traditions, for the Writing Lab, it only strengthened our resolve to consciously engage the transformative ideology of the academic literacies approach through socially-just practices (Muna et al., 2019).
A Forest in the City: Connecting the Work of the Wits Writing Centre with WI Courses at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Wits Writing Centre (WWC) was one of the first writing centres in South Africa, running informally from 1996 and formally established in 2000. We work with a comparatively large consultant group, usually around 25, and seek to use their collective energy to attract other students and draw them into conversations which are anything but remedial.
Writing Around the Globe: English Language Centers in Rwanda
In 2019, Margaret Bugingo, passionate educator and aspiring language learner, founded the IPRC-Huye English Language Center as a component of her Fulbright work in Rwanda to support those English Language Learners who wished to further develop their writing. Based in a more rural city in Rwanda, once the main “university city” in the country, IPRC-Huye now houses the first documented writing center in Rwanda.
A New Writing Center is Born in Rio, and a New Model Arises in Brazil
The writing center scene emerging in Brazil may break with a lot of the canon in the field, but in responding to specific local needs, may also be creating its own epistemology, methodology and unique contribution to writing center knowledge and practice.
