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By (author) Ryan, Leigh; By (author) Zimmerelli, Lisa

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With expanded coverage of teaching in the information age and teaching multilingual writers, as well as a new chapter on research in the writing center, the Sixth Edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors addresses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars.

With expanded coverage of teaching in the information age and teaching multilingual writers, as well as a new chapter on research in the writing center, the Sixth Edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors addresses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars. This concise and practical introduction to tutoring in today’s diverse, multimodal writing environment includes numerous exercises and activities to help tutors develop their tutoring techniques and reflect on their teaching philosophies. Meanwhile, cartoons and tutoring examples throughout the text engage and entertain both experienced users and new tutors alike.

Table of contents
Preface for Writing Center Directors.- Introduction for Tutors.- 1. The Writing Center as a Workplace.- Exercises.- 2. Inside the Tutoring Session.- Exercises.- 3. Tutoring Writers Through The Writing Process.- Exercises.- 4. The Writers You Tutor.- Exercises.- 5. Helping Writers Across the Curriculum.- 6. Tutoring in the Information Age.- 7. Addressing Various Tutoring Situations.- Exercise.- 8. Research in the Writing Center.- Exercises.- 9. The Writing Center as a Community.- Appendices.

Biographical note

Leigh Ryan has directed the Writing Center at the University of Maryland since 1982. In addition to articles on mentoring, writing, and writing center theory, practice, and administration, she is the author of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors (Fifth Edition, with Lisa Zimmerelli). She has presented at regional, national, and international writing center and composition conferences. She has consulted on writing centers at institutions in the United States, South Africa, and the Netherlands. Former secretary of the International Writing Centers Association and president of the Maryland Association of Teachers of English and Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MAWCA), she currently serves on the executive board for MAWCA and the planning committee for the IWCA/NCPTW 2010 conference.

Feature

A concise and practical introduction to tutoring in today’s diverse environment
The book includes exercises and activities throughout to help tutors develop their tutoring techniques and reflect on their teaching philosophies