Overview: Discussion on conference teaching. How to present a one-to-one convesation, new insights on how to get started, and guides teachers/ tutors on how to tutor in writing centers. It even illustrates an actual converation during a writing lab; showing how the tutor gets involved in the writer's work. "The first chapter offers a rationale for one-to-one teaching and discusses the role of the conference in teaching writing, what conference talk accomplishes, and the benefits of one-to-one teaching."
Use: will use this content to help better visualize how a one-on-one conference takes place/ should take place.
Harris, Muriel. Collaboration is not collaboration is not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials v Peer Response.
Overview:describes how student and peer tutoring is based on collaborative skills- promoting interaction between reader and writer.
Harris, Muriel. Collaboration is not collaboration is not Collaboration: Writing Center Tutorials v Peer Response.
Overview:describes how student and peer tutoring is based on collaborative skills- promoting interaction between reader and writer.
Ianetta, Melissa, and Lauren Fitzgerald. "Writing Center Journal:An Alternative History." Writing Center Journal 30.1 (2010): 9-11. Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.
Overview: The backward glance sheds light on the history of the journal that will broaden both the historical understanding and the sense of future potential. It also helps in taking into consideration as an alternative map of writing center history to create futures for individual writing centers. It mentions the essays including "Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center," by Andrea Lunsford, "Minimalist Tutoring," by Jeff Brooks and "Idea," by Stephen North that contributed to the growth of the journal.
Boquet, Elizabeth H. "Introduction to "From Silence to Noise: The Writing Center as Critical Exile." Writing Center Journal 30.1 (2010): 66-68. Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.
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Grimm, Nancy Maloney. "Introduction to "Multicultural Voices: Peer Tutoring and Critical Reflection in the Writing Center." Writing Center Journal 30.1 (2010): 36-39. Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.
overview: Literacy lessons of the tutors/authors who recognized the importance of erasing cultural backgrounds to become good writers are reflected.
Lundberg, Angela. "Student and teacher experiences of assessing different levels of understanding." Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 29.3 (2004): 323-333. E-Journals. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.
Overview: Examinations greatly influence course structures and student study strategies. A course for students in the civil and environmental engineering programme at Luleå University of Technology was reconstructed with the aim of increasing levels of understanding. A simple written test was designed to assess low levels of understanding (definitions, concepts, etc.). Laboratory work, fieldwork and extensive assignments (calculation tasks) were intended to assess medium levels of understanding
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