Adapted from College Today

Since 1989, Professor of English Bonnie Devet has directed the Writing Lab at the College of Charleston.

The lab provides students with one-to-one assistance for every stage in the writing process for term papers, essays, letters, memos or book reviews.

In addition to being the first certified writing lab in the State of South Carolina, the lab has also been recognized with the Outstanding Peer Tutor Award, the Student Employee of the Year Award, and the Outstanding Scholarship Award.

It suffices to say that Devet, who also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, knows her stuff when it comes to running a top-notch writing center. On Feb. 26, 2016, Devet will share her expertise with a national audience via a live Internet broadcast hosted by Writing Center Journal, the premier academic journal for writing center studies.

Devet discussed her recently published journal article, “The Writing Center and Transfer of Learning: A Primer for Directors.” In that article, Devet describes how scholarship on transfer–defined as “the ability to take something learned in one context and apply it to another”–from the fields of composition studies and educational psychology can help inform the crucial work that writing centers on campuses across the country accomplish each day. Indeed, with access to students in a range of fields and at different levels of education, writing centers are in an excellent position to inspire students to think in more integrative and adaptive ways about the work they do in their majors, in their professional writing, and beyond.