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Writing centers: the student retention connection.
Abstract
Writing Center programs have long integrated many of the factors retention researchers have indicated as contributing to student retention in higher education. However, neither writing center nor retention scholarship has discussed this connection, perhaps due to the traditional separation of college and universities' academic and student affairs divisions. Writing center programs hold much promise as participants in institutions' wider retention efforts.
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While discussing ways writing centers can get involved in their campuses' retention efforts in "The Role of Writing Centers in Student Retention Programs," Jeanne Simpson ...
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