The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors

By Leigh Ryan, Lisa Zimmerelli, Leigh Ryan

Book Overview

With more activities and exercises than ever before, this fifth edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors provides a concise and practical introduction to tutoring. Its nine chapters provide principles and strategies for working with diverse writers and assignments in a variety of contexts: college or high school, online or face-to-face, in the writing center and beyond. Visit the companion Web site for The Bedford Handbook , Eighth Edition (hackerhandbooks.com/bedhandbook) to find additional tools for tutors and writers including handouts on common writing, grammar, and punctuation problems; documentation help; links to tutoring resources; and an annotated bibliography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312566735
• ISBN13: 9780312566739
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent exercises

I am rewriting the training manual for our Writing Center Peer Tutors, depending very heavily on the excellent exercises included in this text. There is very little literature out there on the training of peer tutors, making this text very valuable.

useful resource

This is an excellent resource for peer tutors, of any discipline. Included are useful descriptions of an ideal tutoring session along with strategies for coping with a variety of obstacles, such as student anxiety, difficult or uncooperative students, ESL, learning disabilities, and writing across disciplines. The handbook also provides an outline of writing center priorities, emphasizing the need to focus on higher order problems, such as organization, thesis statement, and structure, first and lower order problems, such as basic mechanical errors, last. The only downfall -- there is a lot of information packed into a little book. It makes for a valuable reference tool, but the handbook is not ideal for front cover to back cover reading. Still, it is a must have, along with The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring by Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner, for any writing center administrator or tutor.