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Why the MENA Region?
As you read through the posts of this website, you will gradually understand why we decided to write about academic writing and writing centers in the MENA region. The concepts related to teaching academic writing, proper citations and writing centers are almost foreign to the region. These concepts were brought to the region mostly as…
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The MENA Region
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a region rich in natural resources. The region is endowed with more than half the oil reserve of the world, “ the total figure of MENA proven reserves equal to 860 billion barrels, which are 52% of global proven oil reserves” (Khatib, 2013). The wealth of oil is not…
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Developing the MENA Writing Center Census: Tutors, Institutions, and Language
What is a tutor and who are they tutoring? (Cite the wc literature that talks about what to call the people who do the tutoring and the student writers) Tutor translates into مدرس, but this Arabic equivalent of tutor signifies teacher and it did not convey the intended meaning in the context. We could use…
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Arabic and the Role of Language in Developing the MENA Writing Center Census
Arabic is a Semitic language that is spoken natively by more than 200 million speakers in the Arab region. It is the official language or one of the official languages of more than twenty countries of the Arab League. While English is a Subject-Verb-Object language, Arabic has both Nominal sentences and Verbal sentences. Arabic is…
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