The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors

by Leigh Ryan, Lisa Zimmerelli, Leigh Ryan

Book Overview

The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors discusses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars, helping you establish your tutoring techniques and reflect on your teaching philosophies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145765072X
• ISBN13: 9781457650727
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent exercises

I am rewriting the training manual for our Writing Center Peer Tutors, depending very heavily on the excellent exercises included in this text. There is very little literature out there on the training of peer tutors, making this text very valuable.

useful resource

This is an excellent resource for peer tutors, of any discipline. Included are useful descriptions of an ideal tutoring session along with strategies for coping with a variety of obstacles, such as student anxiety, difficult or uncooperative students, ESL, learning disabilities, and writing across disciplines. The handbook also provides an outline of writing center priorities, emphasizing the need to focus on higher order problems, such as organization, thesis statement, and structure, first and lower order problems, such as basic mechanical errors, last. The only downfall -- there is a lot of information packed into a little book. It makes for a valuable reference tool, but the handbook is not ideal for front cover to back cover reading. Still, it is a must have, along with The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring by Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner, for any writing center administrator or tutor.