Carino,+Peter.++Early+Writing+Centers.+Toward+a+History.

Carino, Peter. "Early Writing Centers: Toward a History." WCJ 15.2 (1995): 103-115. Reprinted in Barnett 10-21.

Carino details early writing center methodologies, countering the myth of progression that writing center theory, and composition theory as a whole, seems to take for granted in which everything pre-Dartmouth was CTR and always about grammar dills. Carino describes a history of early writing labs that instead focused on one-on-one instruction, defied traditional models of teacher/classroom authority, and pushed against the idea of a writing center as a place for remedial or "bad" writers.