Talk About Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced

Talk About Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

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 tutorsâ€™ talk and to use that analysis to train new tutors.

The book strives toward two main goals: to provide an analytical research and assessment toolâ€•the coding schemeâ€•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 tutorsâ€™ use of three categories of tutoring strategiesâ€•instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffoldingâ€•at macro- and microlevels and results in practical recommendations for improving tutor training.
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781138782075
ReleaseDate 2014-10-04
EANs 9781138782075

Talk About Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors