Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for ConferencesWhen Don McAndrew and Tom Reigstad wrote Training Tutors for Writing Conferences, they provided such unique insight into the principles and practices of tutoring that the book was awarded "Best Publication" by the National Writing Centers Association. Now, more than a decade later, the authors have expanded and updated their classic monograph to make it even more useful and reflect new developments in research and theory. No other book is quite so comprehensive. In addition to providing a thorough review of theory and research, Tutoring Writing offers a rich toolbox of tutoring tips, including:
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... writer has a rough record of this productive oral brainstorming to use later . Free talking . Free talking isn't quite the oral counterpart of free writing , but a sequence of steps devised by Robert Zoellner ( 1969 ) to combine oral ...
... writer has a rough record of this productive oral brainstorming to use later . Free talking . Free talking isn't quite the oral counterpart of free writing , but a sequence of steps devised by Robert Zoellner ( 1969 ) to combine oral ...
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... free writing . We train tutors to use an adaptation of Elbow's ( 1973 ) idea of free writing that we call " focused free writ- ing . " Ask the writer to focus on a portion of the draft that needs development , writing anything and ...
... free writing . We train tutors to use an adaptation of Elbow's ( 1973 ) idea of free writing that we call " focused free writ- ing . " Ask the writer to focus on a portion of the draft that needs development , writing anything and ...
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... free writing to develop each idea in turn , but doing focused free writing seven times in a row would have been burdensome . Mapping seems like a possibility , but it is best applied to situations . where the tutor wants the writer to ...
... free writing to develop each idea in turn , but doing focused free writing seven times in a row would have been burdensome . Mapping seems like a possibility , but it is best applied to situations . where the tutor wants the writer to ...
Contents
Theories Underpinning Tutoring Writing | 1 |
Chapter | 8 |
Chapter Three | 14 |
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