The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

*new to this edition

 

Part I. The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices 
 
Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction
The Tutors Role: Developing an Informed Practice
Dimensions of the Tutorial
Tutoring Online
Multimodal Tutoring
On Becoming an Effective Tutor

 

Part II. Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation

THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS
Stephen North, “The Idea of a Writing Center”
*Stephen North, “Revisiting The Idea of a Writing Center”
Andrea Lunsford, “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center”
*Peter Vandenberg, “Lessons of Inscription: Tutor Training and the Professionl Conversation”
*Steve Sherwood, “Portrait of the Tutor as an Artist: Lessons No One Can Teach” 
  
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TUTORING
*Peter Carino, “Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring”
Jeff Brooks, “Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work”
Linda K. Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns, “A Critique of Pure Tutoring”
*Steven J. Corbett, “Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Debate”
*Carl Glover, “Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea”
*David Bringhurst, “Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach”
*Terese Thonus, “Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What Is Success?”

*Neal Lerner, “Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the Proof of Our Effectiveness”
*Carol Severino and Megan Knight, “Exporting Writing Center Pedagogy: Writing Fellows Programs As Ambassadors for the Writing Center”
*Jacob S. Blumner, “A Writing Center-Education Department Collaboration: Training Teachers to Work One-on-One”

 

AFFIRMING DIVERSITY
Anne DiPardo, “Whispers of Coming and Going: Lessons from Fannie”
Julie Neff, “Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center”
*Harry Denny, “Queering the Writing Center”
Sharon A. Myers, “Reassessing the Proofreading Trap: ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction”
*Nancy Barron and Nancy Grimm, “Addressing Racial Diversity in a Writing Center: Stories and Lessons from Two Beginners”

 

EXPLORATIONS: THE MULTIMODAL WRITING CENTER
*Lisa Bell, “Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online”
*David Sheridan, “Words, Images, Sounds:  Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers”
*Jackie Grutsch McKinney, "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print”
*Christina Murphy and Lory Hawkes, “The Future of Multiliteracy Centers in the E-World: An Exploration of Cultural Narratives and Cultural Transformation”

 

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)
The National Conference On Peer Tutoring In Writing (NCPTW)
Online Resources
Electronic Networks and Blogs
Journals
Books and Articles
Grammar Hotline Directory