Talk about Writing

The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle Thompson (Auburn University, USA)

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Routledge
24 April 2018

Writing & editing guides; Writing skills; Study & learning skills: general

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 each chapter of the analysis ending in practical advice about tutor training.

The second edition adds to the discussion of research provided in the first edition, maintaining the two previous goals: to provide a theory-based coding scheme for analyzing tutoring strategies according to their potential for instructing and scaffolding student writers’ learning, and to demonstrate that analysis on 10 satisfactory conferences conducted by experienced writing center tutors. New to this edition, the authors expand the previous discussion of the coding scheme with additional details about its development. Along with the expanded Chapter 3 about research methods, this edition features new examples from the corpus of conferences and updates the literature review.

By: Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle Thompson (Auburn University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9781138575035
ISBN 10: 1138575038
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 24 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jo Mackiewicz is a professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, USA. She codirects the Advanced Communication program and, in 2017, published The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk: A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis. Isabelle Kramer Thompson is an emerita professor of technical and professional communication and former coordinator of the English Center at Auburn University, USA.

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

TAW 2nd edition provides an inspiring model for writing center research and its application to tutor training. The authors take a careful and systematic approach to revealing the unique powers of one-to-one instruction and interaction. The book provides fresh insights I can share with my tutors, colleagues, and dean. I love this new edition. - Ben Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA Through detailed conversations between tutors and students, Mackiewicz and Thompson detail replicable and applicable approaches to research design and tutoring. Furthermore, the identified scaffolding strategies name and give technical terminology to familiar everyday practices like suggesting, politeness, and joking, which will help tutors understand the theoretical foundations of their own work. -Randall W. Monty, PhD., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA When TAW appeared, readers-especially those in writing centers-applauded the carefully researched system of coding and analyzing tutor-student talk. Now, the 2nd edition broadens the authors' contribution to the study of spoken language by expanding the discussion of their coding system and by suggesting other ways to code and study verbal communication. -Muriel Harris, Purdue University, USA