The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

Balancing material on classic tutoring methods with coverage of modern approaches, The St Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors, Fourth Edition, is both a brief guide to tutoring and an anthology of perceptive essays. The Sourcebook explores contemporary developments in writing center theory and practice, including multimedia and multimodal contexts for tutoring, sophisticated approaches to working with students of varying cultural backgrounds, and extensive analyses of various models of the composition process. As a training manual or as a reference work, The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors offers invaluable support for today's writing center and classroom. Book jacket.

The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices	p. 1
Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction	p. 2
The Tutor's Role: Developing an Informed Practice	p. 9
Dimensions of the Tutorial	p. 10
Tutoring Online	p. 24
Multimodal Tutoring	p. 27
On Becoming an Effective Tutor	p. 32
Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation	p. 35
Theoretical Constructs	p. 44
The Idea of a Writing Center	p. 44
Revisiting ôThe Idea of a Writing Centerö	p. 58
Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center	p. 70
Lessons of Inscription: Tutor Training and the ôProfessional Conversationö	p. 77
Portrait of the Tutor as an Artist: Lessons No One Can Teach	p. 97
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tutoring	p. 112
Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring	p. 112
Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work	p. 128
A Critique of Pure Tutoring	p. 133
Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Debate	p. 148
Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea	p. 155
Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach	p. 164
Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What Is ôSuccessö?	p. 175
Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the ôProofö of Our Effectiveness	p. 199
Exporting Writing Center Pedagogy: Writing Fellows Programs as Ambassadors for the Writing Center	p. 214
A Writing Center-Education Department Collaboration: Training Teachers to Work One-on-One	p. 227
Affirming Diversity	p. 233
ôWhispers of Coming and Goingö: Lessons from Fannie	p. 233
Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center	p. 249
Queering the Writing Center	p. 263
Reassessing the ôProofreading Trapö: ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction	p. 284
Addressing Racial Diversity in a Writing Center: Stories and Lessons from Two Beginners	p. 302
Explorations: The Multimodal Writing Center	p. 326
Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online	p. 326
Words, Images, Sounds: Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers	p. 334
New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print	p. 344
The Future of Multiliteracy Centers in the E-World: An Exploration of Cultural Narratives and Cultural Transformation	p. 361
Resources for Further Inquiry	p. 375
International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)	p. 375
National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW)	p. 376
Online Resources	p. 376
Electronic Networks and Blogs	p. 376
Journals	p. 377
Books and Articles	p. 378
Grammar Hotline Directory	p. 382
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