Transcripts of expert interviews with writing center directors in the USA in 2012

This document contains transcripts of interviews with 16 writing center directors in different writing centers in the USA, conducted in 2012. The overall research question for the interviews was how writing center directors deal with challenges in writing center work and how they conduct institutional work for their writing centers.

The interviews belong to the habilitation thesis "Strategien für die Institutionalisierung von Schreibzentren an Hochschulen. Eine qualitative Analyse der Institutionalisierungsarbeit von Leitungspersonen in Schreibzentren", as proposed to the Fakultätsrat der Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät of the Humboldt University Berlin, April 1st 2016. The study has been accepted as habilitation by the Fakultätsrat at February 15th 2017.

The results of the study will be published as open access publication (e-book) and in print by W.Bertelsmann Verlag (wbv) Bielefeld in October 2017. The study contains a description of demographic details and other details of the interviews and explains the methodology, which clarifies why the interview transcripts eventually change to part-transcriptions due to theoretical saturation.