Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

by Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Kramer Thompson

Book Overview

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 microlevels. The study details tutors' use of three categories of tutoring strategies--instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding--with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138575038
• ISBN13: 9781138575035
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"