Writing Center Talk Over Time - A Mixed-Method Study

Informationen zum Autor Jo Mackiewicz is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication and Co-Director of the Advanced Communication Program at Iowa State University, USA. She is the author of The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk and co-author, with Isabelle Thompson, of Talk about Writing. Klappentext 25 exemplaren in een pakket Zusammenfassung This book explores the importance of writing center talk and demonstrates the efficacy of tutor training. It uses corpus-driven and discourse analysis to examine the changes in writing center talk over time to provide a baseline understanding of the very heart of writing center work: the talk that unfolds between tutors and student writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword by Isabelle Thompson Chapter 1: The UWS Writing Center in Place and Time Chapter 2: Practice Based in Research Chapter 3: A Mixed-Method Approach Chapter 4: Volubility, Variation, and Most Frequent Words Chapter 5: Tutors’ Keywords Chapter 6: Student Writers’ Keywords Chapter 7: Lexical Bundles in Tutors’ and Student Writers’ Talk Chapter 8: Student Writers’ Very Long Turns-at-Talk Chapter 9: Changes in the Aboutness of Talk at the UWS Writing Center References Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: 2017 Interview Questions Appendix C: Mackiewicz and Thompson (2015) Coding Scheme for Tutoring Strategies Appendix D: Letters for Participant Recruitment Appendix E: Consent Forms and Data Release Form Appendix F: Demographic Information Sheets Appendix G: 2017 Training Syllabus Appendix H: 2017 Consultant Observation Form Appendix I: Excerpts from the 2017 ESL Training Schedule

Product details

• Authors: Jo Mackiewicz, Mackiewicz Jo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138603028
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60302-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Research in Writing Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Discourse Analysis, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Communication Studies, teacher training, Teaching skills & techniques, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Research methods: general