Writing Center Talk Over Time: A Mixed-Method Study

ISBN-13: 9780367589134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Jo Mackiewicz

Opis

This book explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the efficacy of tutor training. It uses corpus-driven 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Isabelle Thompson

Chapter 1: The UWS Writing Center in Place and Time

Chapter 2: Practice Based in Research

Chapter 3: A Mixed-Method Approach

Chapter 4: Volubility, Variation, and Most Frequent Words

Chapter 5: Tutors’ Keywords

Chapter 6: Student Writers’ Keywords

Chapter 7: Lexical Bundles in Tutors’ and Student Writers’ Talk

Chapter 8: Student Writers’ Very Long Turns-at-Talk

Chapter 9: Changes in the Aboutness of Talk at the UWS Writing Center

References

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: 2017 Interview Questions

Appendix C: Mackiewicz and Thompson (2015) Coding Scheme for Tutoring Strategies

Appendix D: Letters for Participant Recruitment

Appendix E: Consent Forms and Data Release Form

Appendix F: Demographic Information Sheets

Appendix G: 2017 Training Syllabus

Appendix H: 2017 Consultant Observation Form

Appendix I: Excerpts from the 2017 ESL Training Schedule

O autorze

Jo Mackiewicz is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication and Co-Director of the Advanced Communication Program at Iowa State University, USA. She is the author of The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk and co-author, with Isabelle Thompson, of Talk about Writing.