Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for Conferences

by Donald A. McAndrew

Book Overview

When Don McAndrew and Tom Reigstad wrote Training Tutors for Writing Conferences, they provided such unique insight into the principles and practices of tutoring that the book was awarded "Best Publication" by the National Writing Centers Association. Now, more than a decade later, the authors have expanded and updated their classic monograph to make it even more useful and reflect new developments in research and theory.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867095180
• ISBN13: 9780867095180
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Great book for training tutors and honing conferencing skills

I've used this book to train tutors, and it is one of the better books out there for the purpose. Not only is it easy to read and understand (in other words, it is accessible even to undergraduate tutors), but it also supplies a wealth of research, theory, and history of the best tutoring writing practices. My favorite chapter is near the end of the book where the authors provide short sections highlighting tutorial advice from masters like Muriel Harris, Peter Elbow, Donald Murray, and Nancy Atwell. What the previous reviewer may not have understood is that the authors were merely reporting the impact of feminist theory and research on the field of tutoring writing. Any intense reading of composition academic journals would show that, yes, feminist theory has had an incredible impact on the evolving understanding of best practices in the teaching of writing, in general, and in tutoring writing, specifically. As in everything, a field of study develops from a conversation. The feminist contribution to that conversation in composition studies has been a rich one. The authors would have been remiss to leave it out of their overview of tutoring writing. Great book overall. I highly recommend it.