Kenneth Bruffee
Kenneth Bruffee (September 1, 1934–January 20, 2019) was an American writing center administrator and professor emeritus in the department of English at Brooklyn College.
Background[]
Bruffee published the first peer tutoring handbook, A Short Course in Writing, in 1972.[1] Bruffee established the field of writing center studies[citation needed] and established peer tutoring's place in university administration at Brooklyn College in conjunction with administrators at other New York colleges. The rise of writing centers was necessitated by a growing population of students who were unprepared for college writing.[2] In 1979, Bruffee and colleagues founded the Brooklyn College Institute for Training Peer Tutors, which trained peer tutors and encouraged the development of writing centers and writing labs.[3]
In 2007, Bruffee gave the keynote address at the 25th National Conference on Peer Tutoring and Writing.[4] In 2008, the Writing Center Journal issued a special issue on Kenneth Bruffee and the Brooklyn Plan.[5]
Bruffee graduated from Wesleyan University and earned a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. He has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cooper Union, and the University of Pennsylvania."[6]
Publications[]
- Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence and the Authority of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press; 1993)
- A Short Course in Writing: Composition, Collaboration and Constructive Reading (Peason, Longman; 2006)
- Elegetic Romance: Cultural Change and the Loss of the Hero in Modern Fiction (Cornell University Press; 1983)
Notes[]
- ^ Kail, Harvey (2008). "From the Guest Editor". Writing Center Journal. 28 (2): 3–4.
- ^ [when?][where?] Sterling, Richard (2008). "Bruffee and the CUNY Circle". Writing Center Journal. 28 (2): 19–24.
- ^ Kail, Harvey (2008). "Innovation and Repetition: The Brooklyn College Summer Institute in Training Peer Writing Tutors 25 Years Later". Writing Center Journal. 28 (2): 43–51.
- ^ Maxwell, Ron (2008). "Kenneth Bruffee and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing". Writing Center Journal. 28 (2): 11–18.
- ^ IWCA Web Editor (Oct 6, 2008). "Writing Center Journal Special Issue on Kenneth Bruffee and Collaborative Learning". Retrieved January 17, 2009.
- ^ Bruffee, Brooklyn College. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
See also[]
- Writing Centers
- Peer tutors
- American academics
- Wesleyan University alumni
- 2019 deaths
- 1934 births
- Writing
- American English academic biography stubs