The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

By Murphy Sherwood, Steve Sherwood, Christina Murphy

Book Overview

Balancing material on classic tutoring methods with coverage of modern approaches, The St. Martins Sourcebook for Writing Tutors is both a brief guide to tutoring and an anthology of perceptive essays. The fourth edition of the Sourcebook explores contemporary developments in writing center theory and practice, including multimedia and multimodal contexts for tutoring, sophisticated approaches to working with students of varying cultural backgrounds, and extensive analyses of various models of the composing process. As a training manual or as a reference work, The St. Martins Sourcebook for Writing Tutors offers invaluable support for todays writing center and classroom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312661916
• ISBN13: 9780312661915
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

detailed advice

The book is a collection of numerous extended tracts on various subjects, along with detailed advice for writing tutors. A lot of the advice revolves around being able to coach the students into learning for themselves, with a minimal amount of nudging from the tutor to ensure that the students are correctly assimilating the material. It also looks at [possible] cultural differences between having native English students and ESL students. The latter might sometimes expect broader advice about dealing with cultural differences in a majority English speaking community.