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The Bedford guide for writing tutors /

by Ryan, Leigh; Zimmerelli, Lisa.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2016.Edition: Sixth edition.Description: xv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 145765072X; 9781457650727.Subject(s): Tutors and tutoring | English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching | Report writing -- Study and teaching | English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching | Report writing -- Study and teaching | Tutors and tutoring
Contents:
The writing center as a workplace -- Inside the tutoring session -- Tutoring writers through the writing process -- The writers you tutor -- Helping writers across the curriculum -- Tutoring in the information age -- Addressing various tutoring situations -- Research in the writing center -- The writing center as a community.
Summary: "With expanded coverage of teaching in the information age and teaching multilingual writers, as well as a new chapter on research in the writing center, the Sixth Edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors addresses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars. This concise and practical introduction to tutoring in today's diverse, multimodal writing environment includes numerous exercises and activities to help tutors develop their tutoring techniques and reflect on their teaching philosophies. Meanwhile, cartoons and tutoring examples throughout the text engage and entertain both experienced users and new tutors alike." --Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The writing center as a workplace -- Inside the tutoring session -- Tutoring writers through the writing process -- The writers you tutor -- Helping writers across the curriculum -- Tutoring in the information age -- Addressing various tutoring situations -- Research in the writing center -- The writing center as a community.

"With expanded coverage of teaching in the information age and teaching multilingual writers, as well as a new chapter on research in the writing center, the Sixth Edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors addresses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars. This concise and practical introduction to tutoring in today's diverse, multimodal writing environment includes numerous exercises and activities to help tutors develop their tutoring techniques and reflect on their teaching philosophies. Meanwhile, cartoons and tutoring examples throughout the text engage and entertain both experienced users and new tutors alike." --Publisher

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