St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

Name: St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors
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ISBN: 9780312442262

ISBN-10: 0312442262

ISBN-13: 9780312442262

Edition: 3rd 2008

Authors: Christina Murphy, Steve Sherwood

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Description:

A brief guide to tutoring, with an anthology of essays. The fourth edition introduces sophisticated approaches to tutoring students of varying cultural backgrounds and new attention to technology, activity theory, ethical dimensions of tutoring writing, and challenges to theories of the writing process.

Book details

List price: $12.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices


Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction


The Tutor's Role: Developing an Informed Practice


The Stages of the Tutorial


Tutoring Online


On Becoming an Effective Tutor



Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation


Theoretical Constructs


The Idea of a Writing Center



Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center



Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers



The Politics of Tutoring: Feminism within the Patriarchy



Postcolonialism and the Idea of a Writing Center



Interpersonal Dynamics


Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well



"Whispers of Coming and Going": Lessons from Fanni



Intellectual Tug-of-War: Snapshots of Life in the Center



Ethical Dimensions


Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves: Constraining Conversations in the Writing Center



Subjectivity in the Tutorial Session: How Far Can We Go?



"The Use of Force": Medical Ethics and Center Practice



Responding to Texts


Provocative Revision



Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work



A Critique of Pure Tutoring



Constructing Each Other: Collaborating across Disciplines and Roles



Affirming Diversity


Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students



Reassessing the ï¿½ï¿½Proofreading Trapï¿½: ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction