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The St. Martin's sourcebook for writing tutors
Title:
The St. Martin's sourcebook for writing tutors
Author:
Murphy, Christina.
ISBN:
9780312661915
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2011.
Physical Description:
xi, 385 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The tutoring process : exploring paradigms and practices.

The idea of a writing center / Revisiting "The idea of a writing center" / Collaboration, control, and the idea of a writing center / Lessons of inscription : tutor training and the "professional conversation" / Portrait of the tutor as an artist : lessons no one can teach / Power and authority in peer tutoring / Minimalist tutoring : making the student do all the work / A critique of pure tutoring / Tutoring style, tutoring ethics : the continuing relevance of the directive/nondirective instructional debate / Kairos and the writing center : modern perspectives on an ancient idea / Identifying our ethical responsibility : a criterion-based approach / Tutor and student assessments of academic writing tutortials : what is "success"? / Writing center assessment : searching for the "proof" of our effectiveness / Exporting writing center pedagogy : writing fellows programs as ambassadors for the writing center / A writing center--education department collaboration : training teachers to work one-on-one / "Whispers of coming and going" : lessons from Fannie / Learning disabilities and the writing center / Queering the writing center / Reassessing the "proofreading trap" : ESL tutoring and writing instruction / Addressing racial diversity in a writing center : stories and lessons from two beginners / Preserving the rhetorical nature of tutoring when going online / Words, images, sounds : writing centers as multiliteracy centers / New media matters : tutoring in the late age of print / The future of multiliteracy centers in the e-world : an exploration of cultural narratives and cultural transformation
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