Across four issues per year and through numerous online resources WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship promotes exchanges on challenges in tutoring theory and methodology, handling ESL issues, directing a writing center, training tutors, designing and expanding centers, and using tutorial theory and pedagogy.

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Volume 49, Issue 2, Winter 2025

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Editor’s Note, by Andrea Efthymiou
DOI: 10.37514/WLN-J.2025.49.2.01

From the Blog Editors of Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders, by Anna Habib, Esther Namubiru, and Weijia Li

When a Measure Becomes a Target: The Dangers of Using Grades in Writing Center Assessment, by Bruce Bowles Jr.
DOI: 10.37514/WLN-J.2025.49.2.02

“Everything Counts”: Impacts of Centering Social Justice in a Writing Center, by Graham Stowe
DOI: 10.37514/WLN-J.2025.49.2.03

Sustaining and Incentivizing Tutor Education through Self-Paced Modules, by Layli Miron
DOI: 10.37514/WLN-J.2025.49.2.04

Tutors’ Column: “Rethinking Consultant Training for a Prison-Based Writing Center”, by Nathan Gilmore, Grady Hudson, and 17 fellow writing consultants
DOI: 10.37514/WLN-J.2025.49.2.05

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WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship is an open-access, peer-review scholarly journal, published on the WAC Clearinghouse and supported by Colorado State University. Copyright © for the journal is held by its editorial staff. Articles are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs).