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Talk About Writing : The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between experienced tutors and student writers in satisfactory conferences. The study uses a research-driven, iteratively tested framework to help writing center directors, tutors, writing program administrators, rhetoric and composition researchers, first-year composition instructors, and others interested in talk about writing to systematically analyze tutors'talk and to use that analysis to train new tutors. The book strives toward two main goals: to provide an analytical research and assessment tool—the coding scheme—that other researchers can use to understand writing center tutor talk and to provide a close, empirical analysis of experienced tutor talk that can facilitate tutor training. The study details tutors'use of three categories of tutoring strategies—instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding—at macro- and microlevels and results in practical recommendations for improving tutor training.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781138782068, 9781138782075, 9781317666912, and 9781317666905
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Talk About Writing : The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 854057