Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle Thompson

Talk about Writing (eBook, PDF)

The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351272636
• Artikelnr.: 56888303

Autorenporträt

Jo Mackiewicz is a professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, USA. She codirects the Advanced Communication program and, in 2017, published The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk: A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis.

Isabelle Kramer Thompson is an emerita professor of technical and professional communication and former coordinator of the English Center at Auburn University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Talk about Writing: An Introduction to Our Empirical Study 2. Literature
Review 3. Methods 4. The Three Conference Stages and Tutoring Strategies:
The Overall Results 5. Instruction Strategies 6. Cognitive Scaffolding
Strategies 7. Motivational Scaffolding Strategies 8. Case Study: A Writing
Center Tutor Becomes a Writing Fellow 9. Talk about Writing: A Conclusion
to Our Empirical Study Appendix A: Conducting a Conference with a Student
Appendix B: "Notes for Students" Form and Instructions Appendix C: The
T5-S5 Conference Coded for Stages, Topic Episodes, and Strategies Appendix
D: Extra Examples of Tutoring Strategies Appendix E: Questions Coding
Scheme