The Center for Research & Writing promotes effective research and writing by offering a variety of services for both students and faculty. Our team of undergraduate tutors support students working to improve their research and writing, and our administrative team works with faculty to increase their effectiveness as teachers of research and writing. Through this collective effort, the Center and the Library act as advocates for strengthening the role of research and writing in our academic community.
All of our services are founded on the understanding that research and writing are integrated, reflective, and recursive processes. We believe that thinking is informed by reading and processing quality information and writing is a means through which we process, reflect upon, and share what we are learning and thinking.
“For most students, the research process exists in the context of the larger process of writing. When the search process is defined as an isolated, discrete process built around finding and evaluating information, it is easy to lose sight of the way students experience the larger development of ideas that takes place in the college writing process.” - James Elmborg, 2003 “Information Literacy and Writing Across the Curriculum: Sharing the Vision” (https://doi.org/10.1108/00907320310460933)
In 2017, we began to integrate the research services historically provided by the library with the tutoring and workshop services of the Center for Writing. Since then, we have integrated our online presence, training activities, materials, and the processes used by students and faculty seeking research and writing support. In 2019 we officially became the Center for Research & Writing.
To support students throughout their creative inquiry processes, and in their development of "larger ideas," our Research & Writing Tutors draw on theory from information studies and writing center studies. This integrative approach is an important step in the history of our programs. In addition, it represents the value and intention of an integrative education experience at Keene State College.
Please click the link above to review the Center's Code of Conduct. This Code applies to all people who work in and use the Center's spaces and services.
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