Muriel Harris

Muriel "Mickey" Sheila Harris (born 1937) is an American academic and scholar in composition and rhetoric who is best known as a writing center specialist. Professor Emerita of English at Purdue University, Harris is the author of over 90 written works spanning scholarly books and book chapters, textbooks, and peer-reviewed articles. Her 1988 book Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference received the International Writing Center Association (IWCA) Outstanding Book Award in 1988. She was also inaugural recipient and namesake for the IWCA's Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award. In 1999, she was awarded the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Exemplar Award. In 2003, Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead published The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship, a collection of critical essays dedicated to Harris as festschrift (a book of tribute scholarship).

Biography Born on August 24, 1937 to parents Max and Ida Goldsmith, Harris spent her early life in Chicago. She attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English education (1959) and a Master of Arts in English (1960). In 1972, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literature from Columbia University. The Writing Lab Newsletter was later renamed to WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.

National awards

CCCC Exemplar Award, 1999 IWCA Outstanding Book Award, 1988 IWCA Outstanding Service Award, 1984

Selected works Books

https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/harris/teaching.pdf

Later editions co-authored by Jennifer Kunka and published by Simon & Schuster

Later editions co-authored by Jennifer Kunka and published by Simon & Schuster

Selected articles

Harris, M. (1995). Talking in the middle: Why writers need writing tutors. College English, 57(1), 27-42. Harris, M. (1992). Collaboration is not collaboration is not collaboration: Writing center tutorials vs. peer-response groups. College Composition & Communication, 43(3), 369-383.