- Use the textbook's first three chapters to identify principles that shape work at writing centers - and write into/ describe/reflect on what you are learning about these principles.
- Create a link list of your classmates' blogs.
The first three chapters taught me...
there are different theories that outline tutoring writing. For example, Social Constructionist, emphasizes on the fact the language is social. Writing and speaking are both forms of language that is used socially. Although we may be writing alone, we are writing to someone. The idea of writing is to use a language to make a point to someone out there. Therefore, writing is a social form, it is based on the reader or what the writer has heard, learned, seen, or read from other people. This theory interests me, as far away as we may be when we write, we are still connected to the community around us, because what we write is for the community around us. In a tutoring session, the interaction is social, between the more informed and educated tutor and the less experienced writer, more commonly known as, the student.
The theory of Talk and Writing, I believe should be the very first theory listed in the book. Talking is the first and foremost form of speech, before we learn to comprehend the alphabet, let alone begin to write it, we learn to speak it and sound it out. What we comprehend through listening becomes and entirely different experience that what we comprehend through reading (writing by another). Tutoring is based on oral language. The speech between the tutor and student is what constructs the foundation of the tutoring session, then after writing is intertwined. "Talk is the cement of all social relationships"(5). Thereafter, the relationships begin to increase and grow into something deeper, relationshipsin the tutoring atmosphere begin with speech ("Hi, my name is Anna. so what is it you need help with today?") and later evolves into writing assisting the student with notes and symbols.
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