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Master the essentials of peer tutoring with WHAT THE WRITING TUTOR NEEDS TO KNOW! With study questions, questions for research projects, and exercises at the end of each chapter, this English text prepares you for the challenges you will face in the tutoring environment. Coverage of sample student papers, teacher expectations, excerpts from peer tutors' research projects, and tutoring good student writers provides you with information you need to help your students succeed.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

x

To the Instructor

x

To the Student with Peer Tutoring Jitters

xii

Peer Tutoring and College Writing: Peer Tutoring Works!

1

(18)

Peer-Tutoring Theory in Context: The ``Teaching Writing'' Revolution

5

(7)

Individualizing Education

6

(1)

Expressivism

7

(1)

How Students Learn to Write

8

(1)

Social Constructionist Theory

9

(3)

Why Peer Tutoring Works: The Research

12

(2)

Research on the Utility of Teacher-Student Conferences

13

(1)

What the Instructors Say

14

(1)

Conclusion

14

(5)

Where We Tutor---How We Tutor

19

(21)

Welcome to the Writing Center: Past and Present

20

(4)

Welcome to the Writing Fellows Program: Peer Tutoring in the Future?

21

(2)

Tutoring in the Writing Center

23

(1)

Writing Fellows Programs

24

(1)

Tutoring at its Best: What the Experts Say

25

(1)

Online Tutoring (``Send Your Paper as an Attachment'')

26

(1)

Friend, Tutor, or Mini-Instructor?

27

(4)

The Language of Peer Tutoring: Let's Get Acquainted

27

(1)

Ok, We're Acquainted: Now What Do I Say?

28

(1)

The Transparent Reader Approach

28

(2)

Be Positive, But Be Honest!

30

(1)

Conclusion

31

(9)

How to Conference and Write Comments

40

(29)

Conferences

41

(11)

The Theory

42

(2)

Flexibility: The ``Mantra'' of Good Conferences

44

(6)

Common Problems

50

(2)

Written Comments

52

(12)

The End Comment

53

(3)

Comments in the Margin

56

(3)

Writing Comments on the Student's Paper/Attaching Comments/Using a Checklist Form

59

(1)

Checklists

60

(3)

Common Problems

63

(1)

Conclusion

64

(5)

Common Writing Problems: Focus, Organization, Development, Style, and Correctness

69

(18)

Where to Start? The Students' Goals

70

(10)

Students' Short-Range Goals

71

(9)

Conclusion

80

(7)

The Writing Process of College Students

87

(15)

Theory and Research

88

(8)

Exploring and Planning

90

(1)

Drafting

91

(1)

Revision and Editing

91

(5)

The Effect of Attitude on the Composing Process

96

(2)

Computers and the Composing Process

98

(1)

Conclusion

99

(3)

Tutoring Special Students

102

(24)

Nonstandard Dialect and ESL Students: Some Background and Definitions

103

(1)

What is Standard American English?

104

(2)

Implications for Tutoring

105

(1)

The Student for Whom English is a Second Language

106

(4)

Tips for Tutors of ESL Students

108

(2)

The Student Who Lacks Basic Writing Skills

110

(4)

Tutoring the Basic Writer: Strategies

112

(1)

Students with Learning Disabilities

113

(1)

The Returning Student

114

(2)

The Good Student Writer

116

(3)

Conclusion

119

(7)

Teacher Expectations, Writing Assignments, and Peer Tutoring: What's the Connection?

126

(21)

Teachers' Expectations and Writing in the Disciplines

128

(3)

The Personal Essay Checklist

131

(2)

The Argument Checklist

133

(1)

What are the Instructor's Criteria for an ``A'' Paper?

134

(1)

How Does the Writing Tutor Learn About Instructors' Expectations?

134

(3)

What Happens When the Assignment is Unclear or Poorly Designed?

137

(1)

How Does the Tutor Balance the Two Roles: Responding as a Tutor and Responding as a Faculty Messenger?

138

(9)

Tutoring Online: An Option---But Is It a Good One?

147

(16)

Synchronous and Asynchronous Electronic Tutoring

150

(1)

What Kind of Feedback Should Students Expect Online?

151

(1)

What Kind of Comments Work Best Online?

152

(2)

Front Comments

152

(1)

End Comments

153

(1)

Sentence Level Comments

154

(1)

Low-Tech Electronic Tutoring: The Telephone

154

(2)

Using Online Resources

156

(1)

More About OWL Websites

157

(1)

The Pitfalls of Online Tutoring: How to Avoid Them

157

(2)

The Last Minute Student

157

(1)

The Invisible Assignment

158

(1)

The Invisible Student

159

(1)

Conclusion

159

(4)

Index

163

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