presented at Conference on College Composition & Communication, Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

1. FROM CITATION CONSUMER TO CITATION
PRODUCER: WORKING WITH STUDENTS
ON SOURCE CITATION IN MULTIPLE
GENRES IN THE WRITING CENTER
Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Writing Center Director
Metropolitan State University of Denver
ekleinfe@msudenver.edu

2. “The new literacies will increasingly be
incorporated into writing centers not just as
sources of information or delivery systems for
tutoring but as productive arts in their own
right, and writing center work will, if anything,
become more rhetorical in paying attention to
the practices and effects of design in written
and visual communication —more product
oriented and perhaps less like the composing
conferences of the process movement.” (30)
Trimbur, John. “Multiliteracies, Social Futures, and Writing Centers.”
The Writing Center Journal 20.2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 29-31.

5. “When our students are distracted by arcane
citation rules, when they spend more time
creating a list of works cited than they do
composing a paper, they won‟t be inspired to
see themselves as people who can make
meaning. Instead, they will focus on avoiding
punishment by carefully describing the
containers of other people‟s ideas. They‟ll
miss the whole point.”
 Fister, Barbara. “Docudrama: Why Sources Matter—And Why Citing them Correctly
Doesn't.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual
Conference, Atlanta, GA: April 2011. Conference Presentation.

6. RIFFING OFF OF DOUG DOWNS . . .
To approach source citation
rhetorically, we need to take into
account how it is situated,
motivated, contingent,
interactional, and epistemic.

9. QUESTIONS ABOUT SOURCES
 Why did you choose this source? (Why do you want
to be associated with this person?)
 Were there other sources you considered but opted
not to use? Why? (Who do you not want to be
associated with and why?)
 What kinds of sources does this source use? (Who
does this author associate with?)

10. “the teacher remains an
audience for student
texts, but by no means the
only audience” (57)
Lunsford, Andrea A., and Lisa Ede. “Among the Audience: On Audience
in an Age of New Literacies.” Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of
New Literacies. M. Elizabeth Weiser, Brian M. Fehler, and Angela M.
Gonzalez, Eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2009. 42-69.

11. TWO RHETORICAL SITUATIONS
1. The “real” rhetorical situation: the student is
composing for a professor who wants sources
cited in an academically-recognizable way
2. The invoked/imagined rhetorical situation: the
student is composing for an audience who wants
sources cited in a way that is contextually
appropriate

12. “If I were asked how I would like writing
centers to be positioned in academia‟s
future, I would offer a picture of us as
the recognized campus leaders whose
vision of how learning environments
should be structured has come to
dominate educational thinking.” (13)
Harris, Muriel. “Preparing to Sit at the Head of the Table: Maintaining Writing
Center Viability in the Twenty-First Century.” The Writing Center Journal 20.2
(Spring/Summer 2000): 13-21.

13. WORKS CITED
 Downs, Doug. “Rhetoric, Not Modes: The Inadequacy of „Critical‟ Reading for Writing-about-
Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, Las
Vegas, NV: March 2013. Conference Presentation.
 Fister, Barbara. “Docudrama: Why Sources Matter—And Why Citing them Correctly Doesn't.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA: April
2011. Conference Presentation.
 Griffin, Jo Ann. “Making Connections with Writing Centers.” Multimodal Composition:
Resources for Teachers. Cynthia Selfe, Ed. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007. 153-165.
 Harris, Muriel. “Preparing to Sit at the Head of the Table: Maintaining Writing Center Viability in
the Twenty-First Century.” The Writing Center Journal 20.2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 13-21.
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 Lunsford, Andrea A., and Lisa Ede. “Among the Audience: On Audience in an Age of New
Literacies.” Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies. M. Elizabeth Weiser, Brian
M. Fehler, and Angela M. Gonzalez, Eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2009. 42-69.
 McClure, R. & Clink, K. (2009). How do you know that? An investigation of student research
practices in the digital age. Libraries and the Academy, 9(1): 115-132.
 Pemberton, Michael. “Planning for Hypertexts in the Writing Center . . . Or Not.” Writing Center
Journal 24.1 (Fall/Winter 2003): 9-24.
 Trimbur, John. “Multiliteracies, Social Futures, and Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Journal
20.2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 29-31.
Email me at ekleinfe@msudenver.edu