Full Description
Talk about WritingTutors 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 tutors' talk and to use that analysis to train new tutors.The book strives toward two main goals: to provide an analytical research and assessment tool-the coding scheme-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 tutors' use of three categories of tutoring strategies-instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding-at macro- and microlevels and results in practical recommendations for improving tutor training.
Contents
Chapter 1- Talk About WritingChapter 2- Literature ReviewChapter 3- MethodsChapter 4- The Three Conference Stages and Tutoring Strategies: The Overall ResultsChapter 5- Instruction StrategiesChapter 6- Cognitive Scaffolding StrategiesChapter 7- Motivational Scaffolding StrategiesChapter 8- Case Study: A Writing Tutor Becomes a Writing FellowChapter 9- Talk About Writing: A Conclusion to Our Empirical StudyAppendices A, B, C, and D
