Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials 

Vision Statement

Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials seeks to support and facilitate communication and community among writing and learning center administrators and tutors by developing a peer-reviewed archive of materials, updated biannually, that new and continuing administrators can draw upon and contribute to as their tutor education and training programs develop and evolve. 

Goals and Purpose

As writing and learning center administrators, we recognize the value of providing high-quality training to our tutors to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to support all writers effectively. We also know that we rarely have opportunities to learn how other administrators conduct training; because of this, administrators, at all stages of our careers, often do not have significant support or models for the “moves” of tutor training and education. 

The purpose of Center Moves is to serve as an archive of peer-reviewed lesson plans and materials, grounded in scholarship, theory, or praxis, that administrators and tutors can use and modify to train new tutors and to support ongoing professional development for existing tutors. This archive will allow writing center administrators and tutors to share and access lesson plans that offer a variety of new topics, tools, methods, materials, activities, and resources for training tutors with varied ranges of experience to work with writers at all levels.

most Recent issue

Issue 2: Tutoring with Linguistic Justice Mindfulness and Tutoring Citation Formatting 

Issue Topics and Call for Proposals

Our fourth issue of Center Moves will be a “wildcard” issue. Rather than focusing on two distinct themes, in this issue we’re inviting proposals centered on any topic related to writing and tutoring center training and praxis.  

With this open call, we encourage you to submit a proposal sharing training materials that might not have fit within our previous themes or that might move across multiple categories of training practice (from those defined in our Keyword Glossary to others you can imagine). If you have a training you’ve been excited about or which has been particularly effective for tutors and consultants, we welcome your proposals!  

If you have questions, you can write to us at rmwca.tutorcon@gmail.com  

Submission and Peer Review Process: 

Proposal Submission Deadline and Form

All submissions for our fourth issue must be received by January 15, 2025. 

To submit your proposal, please complete our Proposal Form. 

You can access a PDF of the Proposal Form Questions as you draft, and can also access our Center Moves Keyword Glossary for more information about the keywords in the form. (Please also feel free to write in your own keywords for this wildcard issue so that we might expand our keywords!)  

About Center Moves

Center Moves is published and housed by the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA), a regional affiliate of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA).

Editorial Board

• • Managing Editor: Erin Zimmerman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Editors-at-large: Lisa Bell, Utah Valley University; Juli Parrish, University of Denver; Olivia Tracy, University of Denver
  • Guest Editors-at-large: Melody Denny, St. Lawrence University; Erik Echols, University of Washington Bothell
  • Past Editors: Jamaica Ritcher, University of Idaho
    

Reviewers

• • Reviewers are invited by the editorial board for each issue based on their knowledge of and experience with the issue themes. 

  • Reviewers may include writing center tutors and administrators at various career stages who are in staff roles, contingent faculty roles, and tenured faculty roles.