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

By Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Kramer Thompson

Book Overview

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. It analyzes writing center talk, focusing on tutors' verbal strategies, at the macro- and micro-levels. The study details tutors' use of three categories of tutoring strategies-instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding-with each chapter of the analysis ending in practical advice about tutor training.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113857502X
• ISBN13: 9781138575028
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"