The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and Research [Paperback]

Distinctive Features

* Includes scholarship authored by undergraduate tutor-researchers
* Provides extensive references to and bibliographic citations of the scholarship of the field
* Offers references to research that supports and challenges disciplinary common knowledge
* Contains assignments designed to support discussion, writing, and inquiry

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Welcome
A Word About People, Places, and Writing Instruction
A Word About the Work We Do
Writing about Tutoring
A Word about the Book's Structure
Acknowledgements

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO TUTORING WRITING
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO WRITING AND RESEARCH
Introduction
Writing Research
Three Concerns for Any Researcher
Places To Search for Research in the Field
CHAPTER 2 TUTORING WRITING: WHAT, WHY, WHERE, AND WHEN
Introduction
What is a Writing Center? What is a Writing Tutor?
What is a Writing Center? : Historical Views
What is Writing Center?: Theoretical Views

SECTION 2: A TUTOR'S HANDBOOK
CHAPTER 3 TUTORING PRACTICES
Introduction
Foundational Advice for Writing Tutors
An Overview of Writing Tutoring Sessions
Tutoring Is Conversation
Tutoring is Not Just Any Conversation
Final Reflections on this Chapter
CHAPTER 4 AUTHORING PROCESSES
Introduction
Writing Processes
Writing Tutors and Writing Processes
Authoring
Writing Tutors, Authoring, and Plagiarism
CHAPTER 5 TUTOR AND WRITER IDENTITIES
Introduction
Identity and Writing Tutoring Programs
Identity and Tutoring Strategies
Tutoring across Language and Culture Differences
Tutoring across Physical and Learning Differences
US Academic Writing
CHAPTER 6 TUTORING WRITING IN AND ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Introduction
Academic Writing(s)
A Genre-Based Approach to Tutoring Writing
Generalist and Specialist Tutoring
Strategies for Tutoring Disciplinary Writing and Special3)