Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors [Hardcover]

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 strategiesinstruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffoldingwith 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.

1. Talk about Writing: An Introduction to Our Empirical Study  2. Literature Review  3. Methods  4. The Three Conference Stages and Tutoring Strategies: The Overall Results  5. Instruction Strategies  6. Cognitive Scaffolding Strategies  7. Motivational Scaffolding Strategies  8. Case Study: A Writing Center Tutor Becomes a Writing Fellow  9. Talk about Writing: A Conclusion to Our Empirical Study  Appendix A: Conducting a Conference with a Student  Appendix B: Notes for Students Form and Instructions  Appendix C: The T5S5 Conference