Writing center talk over time: a mixed-method study

by Mackiewicz, Jo

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Title Statements

Full title :Writing center talk over time : a mixed-method study / Jo Mackiewicz.

Summary

In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers' engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the efficacy of tutor training. The book uses corpus-driven analysis and discourse analysis to examine the changes in writing center talk over time to provide a baseline understanding of the very heart of writing center work: the talk that unfolds between tutors and student writers. It is this talk that, at its best, motivates student writers to continue to improve their writing and scaffolds their learning and that makes tutors proud of the service that they provide. The methods and analysis of this study are intended to inform other researchers so that they may conduct further research into the efficacy of writing center talk.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429469237, 0429469233, 9780429890147, 0429890141, 9780429890154, 042989015X, 9780429890130, 0429890133
DOI:10.4324/9780429469237
oclc:on1028612052
LC Classification:PE1404
Dewey Decimal:808/.0420711

Foreword / by Isabelle Thompson -- The UWS writing center in place and time -- Practice based in research -- A mixed-method approach -- Volubility, variation, and most frequent words -- Tutors' keywords -- Student writers' keywords -- Lexical bundles in tutors' and student writers' talk -- Student writers' very long turns-at-talk -- Changes in the aboutness of talk at the UWS writing center.

Subjects

Academic writing -- Case studies. -- St… Academic writing -- Study and teaching … Case studies Centres de communication écrite -- Étud… English language -- Case studies. -- Rh… English language -- Rhetoric LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composit… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric REFERENCE -- Writing Skills Tutors and tutoring Tutors and tutoring -- Case studies. --… Wisconsin Writing Writing centers Writing centers -- Case studies. -- Wis…