The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

by Christina Murphy, Steve Sherwood

• ISBN13: 9780312188504
• ISBN10: 0312188501
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-03-10
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Table of Contents

Part I. The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices	1	(26)
Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction	2	(5)
The Tutor's Role: Developing an Informed Practice	7	(1)
The Stages of the Tutorial	8	(14)
Tutoring Online	22	(2)
On Becoming an Effective Tutor	24	(3)
Part II. Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation	27	(240)
Theoretical Constructs	31	(1)
The Idea of a Writing Center	31	(15)
Stephen M. North
Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center	46	(7)
Andrea Lunsford
Really Useful Knowledge: A Cultural Studies Agenda for Writing Centers	53	(14)
Marilyn M. Cooper
The Politics of Tutoring: Feminism within the Patriarchy	67	(13)
Meg Woolbright
Postcolonialism and the Idea of a Writing Center	80	(16)
Anis Bawarshi
Stephanie Pelkowski
Interpersonal Dynamics	96	(1)
Freud in the Writing Center: The Psychoanalytics of Tutoring Well	96	(5)
Christina Murphy
``Whispers of Coming and Going'': Lessons from Fannie	101	(16)
Anne Dipardo
Peer Tutoring and Gorgias: Acknowledging Aggression in the Writing Center	117	(13)
Julie Bokser
Ethical Dimensions	130	(1)
Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves: Constraining Conversations in the Writing Center	130	(8)
Steve Sherwood
Subjectivity in the Tutorial Session: How Far Can We Go?	138	(4)
Stacey Freed
``The Use of Force'': Medical Ethics and Center Practice	142	(15)
Jay Jacoby
Responding to Texts	157	(1)
Provocative Revision	157	(12)
Toby Fulwiler
Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work	169	(5)
Jeff Brooks
A Critique of Pure Tutoring	174	(16)
Linda K. Shamoon
Deborah H. Burns
Affirming Diversity	190	(1)
Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students	190	(13)
Muriel Harris
Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center	203	(13)
Julie Neff
``Thirty-something'' Students: Concerning Transitions in the Writing Center	216	(5)
Cynthia Haynes-Burton
Transcending ``Conversing'': A Deaf Student in the Writing Center	221	(11)
Margaret E. Weaver
Online Tutoring	232	(1)
The Anxieties of Distance: Online Tutors Reflect	232	(10)
David A. Carlson
Eileen Apperson-Williams
At Home in the MUD: Writing Centers Learn to Wallow	242	(13)
Eric Crump
Protocols and Process in Online Tutoring	255	(12)
George Cooper
Kara Bui
Linda Riker
Part III. Resources for Further Inquiry	267	(1)
International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)	267	(1)
Online Resources	268	(1)
Electronic Network	268	(1)
Journals	268	(1)
Books	269	(1)
Grammar Hotline Directory	270