Flash Archiving the Writing Center: Snapshots from Lebanon and Egypt.

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Title:	Flash Archiving the Writing Center: Snapshots from Lebanon and Egypt.
Authors:	Moghabghab, Emma¹, Saville, Kathleen², Allen, Ira³
Source:	Writing Center Journal. 2021, Vol. 38 Issue 3, Preceding p117-142. 26p.
Subject Terms:	Writing centers, Archives, *Best practices, Dilemma
Geographic Terms:	Lebanon, Egypt
Abstract:	Composition studies in general, and writing center studies in particular, have developed an increasingly fulsome conversation about archives. Excellent recent work on the theory and practice of creating archives establishes best practices and rationales. Building especially on Stacy Nall (2014), we introduce “flash archiving” as a term and practice for what we call “good-enough archiving,” an entry-point approach to archiving for harried writing center administrators and staff. Flash archiving mirrors the knowledge-making that is the de facto outcome of writing center practice: attuned to ephemera in the midst of solving real-world writing dilemmas. The notion of flash archiving arises from our work as writing center administrators in Lebanon and Egypt and offers a less-than-perfect but nonetheless quite viable way of getting a snapshot of writing centers’ relational work. Because community engagement is central to the meaning-making practices of writing centers, we trace out the logic for and practical uses of flash archiving as a way of capturing the relational “nonevents” that typify such engagement. The result is a form of knowledge-making and collective self-fashioning attuned to the constitutive vagaries of writing center work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Composition studies in general, and writing center studies in particular, have developed an increasingly fulsome conversation about archives. Excellent recent work on the theory and practice of creating archives establishes best practices and rationales. Building especially on Stacy Nall (2014), we introduce “flash archiving” as a term and practice for what we call “good-enough archiving,” an entry-point approach to archiving for harried writing center administrators and staff. Flash archiving mirrors the knowledge-making that is the de facto outcome of writing center practice: attuned to ephemera in the midst of solving real-world writing dilemmas. The notion of flash archiving arises from our work as writing center administrators in Lebanon and Egypt and offers a less-than-perfect but nonetheless quite viable way of getting a snapshot of writing centers’ relational work. Because community engagement is central to the meaning-making practices of writing centers, we trace out the logic for and practical uses of flash archiving as a way of capturing the relational “nonevents” that typify such engagement. The result is a form of knowledge-making and collective self-fashioning attuned to the constitutive vagaries of writing center work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	08896143
DOI:	10.7771/2832-9414.1896