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Talk about Writing : The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors
by Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Thompson
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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 micro-levels. 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781138575028
- ISBN-10: 113857502X
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: May 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
- Page Count: 226
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