Aboutness of Writing Center Talk - A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis

This book analyzes the aboutness of writing center talk-what tutors and student writers talk about when they come together to talk about writing. By combining corpus-driven analysis to provide a quantitative, microlevel view of the subject matter and sociocultural discourse analysis to provide a qualitative macrolevel view of tutor-student writer interactions, it further establishes how these two research methods operate together to produce a robust and rigorous analysis of spoken discourse.

List of contents

1. A Mixed-Method Approach to the Aboutness Writing Center Talk
2. A Complement to Discourse Analysis of Writing Center Talk: Corpus Analysis
3. Methods
4. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk through Basic Characteristics
5. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Function Words
6. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Content Words
7. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Lexical Bundles
8. Conclusion

About the author

Jo Mackiewicz is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University, USA, where she codirects the Advanced Communication program. She earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her recent research focuses on tutoring strategies in writing center conferences. With Isabelle Thompson, she published Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Mackiewicz, Mackiewicz Jo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138688025
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68802-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General