The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-09-18
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Contains suggestions and strategies to give tutors the skill and confidence to help students in the writing center.

Table of Contents

Preface for Writting Center Directors v
Introduction for Tutors ix
Being Professional
1(5)
Exercise 1A
4(1)
Exercise 1B
4(1)
Exercise 1C
5(1)
The Writting Process
6(9)
A General Guide to Stages of the Writing Process
8(7)
Prewriting
8(1)
Writing
9(1)
Stages of the Writing Process
9(1)
Revising and Editing
9(1)
Exercise 2A
10(1)
Exercise 2B
11(1)
Exercise 2C
12(1)
Exercise 2D
12(1)
Exercise 2E
13(2)
Inside the Tutoring Session
15(16)
Getting Started
15(1)
Setting the Agenda
16(1)
Three Effective, Powerful Tools
17(5)
Active Listening
17(2)
Facilitating
19(2)
Silence and Wait Time
21(1)
A Note About Asking Questions
22(1)
The Many Hats Tutors Wear
22(3)
When Is a Tutor Not a Tutor?
25(6)
Exercise 3A
25(1)
Exercise 3B
25(1)
Exercise 3C
25(1)
Tutor Observation Sheet
26(3)
Exercise 3D
29(2)
Helping Writers throughout the Writing Process
31(11)
Prewriting
31(4)
Finding and Exploring a Topic
31(3)
Planning to Write
34(1)
Exercise 4A
35(1)
Writing, Revising, and Editing
35(7)
Making Global Revisions
36(1)
Making Sentence-Level Revisions
37(1)
Editing for Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
38(1)
The Long Paper
39(1)
Exercise 4B
40(1)
Exercise 4C
41(1)
The Writers You Tutor
42(11)
The Writer with Writing Anxiety
42(2)
The Writer with Basic Writing Skills
44(1)
The Writer for Whom English Is a Second Language
45(4)
A Towering Language Barrier
46(2)
Cultural Differences
48(1)
The Writer with a Learning Disability
49(1)
Learning Styles
50(1)
Visual Strategies
50(1)
Auditory Strategies
50(1)
Kinesthetic Strategies
51(1)
Student Concerns
51(2)
Exercise 5A
52(1)
Computers and Tutoring
53(12)
Face-to-Face Tutoring at the Computer
53(2)
Freewriting
54(1)
Working with a Text
54(1)
Tutoring Online
55(3)
Conducting Research on the Internet
58(1)
Evaluating Internet Resources
58(4)
Useful Information About Domain Names
59(1)
Authority
60(1)
Accuracy
61(1)
Bias
61(1)
Currency
62(1)
Pruning URLs for More Information
62(1)
Online Writing Labs (OWLs) and Other Electronic Resources
62(3)
OWLs
62(1)
E-mail Discussion Lists
62(2)
Other Electronic Resources
64(1)
Helping Writers Across the Curriculum
65(8)
Research Papers
65(1)
Lab Reports and Scientific Papers
66(1)
Argument Papers
67(1)
Literature Papers
67(1)
Book, Film, and Play Reviews
68(1)
Resumes
69(1)
Cover Letters
70(1)
Essays of Application
71(2)
Coping with Difficult Tutoring Situations
73(9)
The Writer Who Comes at the Last Minute
73(1)
The Unresponsive Writer
74(1)
The Antagonistic Writer
75(1)
The Writer Who Selects an Inappropriate Topic or Uses Offensive Language
76(6)
Exercise 8A
77(4)
Exercise 8B
81(1)
Appendix A: Outside Tutoring and Editing Jobs 82(2)
Appendix B: Tutors Ask 84(3)
Appendix C: Tutors Talk: Judging What They Say 87(2)
Annotated Bibliography 89

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