Writing Center Talk Over Time: A Mixed-Method Study

ISBN-13: 9781138603028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 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.

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.