University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Open Access Dissertations 9-2011 "Whether Writers Themselves Have Been Changed": A Test of the Values Driving Writing Center Work Michelle Deal University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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[email protected]. “WHETHER WRITERS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN CHANGED”: A TEST OF THE VALUES DRIVING WRITING CENTER WORK A Dissertation Presented by MICHELLE L. DEAL Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2011 Department of English © Copyright by Michelle L. Deal 2011 All Rights Reserved “WHETHER WRITERS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN CHANGED”: A TEST OF THE VALUES DRIVING WRITING CENTER WORK A Dissertation Presented by MICHELLE L. DEAL Approved as to style and content by: _________________________________________________ Donna LeCourt, Chair _________________________________________________ Anne Herrington, Member _________________________________________________ Mathew Ouellett, Member _______________________________________________ Joseph Bartolomeo, Department Head Department of English ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Donna LeCourt, for her many years of support. Her writing, teaching, and mentoring have helped make me a better writer, reader, thinker, and educator.