presentation at the 2016 Mississippi Writing Center Association (MSWCA) annual conference

1. We’re All Mixed Up:
Collaborating to Support the
Acquisition of Academic Literacy
Stacy Kastner, MSU Writing Center Amanda Powers, MSU Libraries Hillary Richardson, MSU Libraries

2. THEWC@
RESEARCH
SERVICES

3. Invitations

4. Cross Talk
One-to-One
Methods!
The.
Literature.
Review.

5. Braided Process
In 2004, Rolf Norgaard called for a hybrid approach
to information literacy education, arguing that
“writing theory and pedagogy can and should have
a constitutive influence on our conception of
information literacy.” For Norgaard, such a
pedagogy requires “a partnership” characterized by
“genuine intellectual engagement.” On college and
university campuses, it is not uncommon for
libraries, composition programs, and writing centers
to establish partnerships in pursuit of this goal:
facilitating the acquisition of research and writing as
processes not meant to “unbraid” but as complex,
demanding, and interdependent activities (Fister).

6. ACRL
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration

7. ACRL
In addition, this Framework draws significantly
upon the concept of metaliteracy, which offers a
renewed vision of information literacy as an
overarching set of abilities in which students are
consumers and creators of information who can
participate successfully in collaborative spaces.
Metaliteracy demands behavioral, affective,
cognitive, and metacognitive engagement with
the information ecosystem.
This Framework depends on these core ideas of
metaliteracy, with special focus on
metacognition, or critical self-reflection, as
crucial to becoming more self-directed in that
rapidly changing ecosystem.

8. Curiosity
Openness
Engagement
Creativity
Persistence
Responsibility
Flexibility
Metacognition
WPANCTENWP

9.  Rhetorical
knowledge
 Critical thinking
 Writing processes
 Knowledge of
conventions
 Abilities to compose
in multiple
environments
WPANCTENWP

10. WPANCTENWP

11. Collaborations
• Undergraduate Workshops
• Classroom Sessions/Workshops
• Graduate Workshops
• Summer Development Program Skills Lab Experiment
• Dissertation Jump Start

12. Collaborations

13. Collaborations

14. Data-Based Dialogue

15. Brainstorming Sessions

16. How do or how should
or how could we braid
“research” and
“writing”?
How do or how should
or how could we braid
“The Library” and “The
Writing Center”?

17. What’s tech got to do with it?

18. What’s computing
got to do with it?