Would you like a desk copy? The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring Table of Contents Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: Why we Tutor Chapter 2: The Writing Process Chapter 3: The Tutoring Process Chapter 4: Examining Expectations Chapter 5: Observing in the Writing Center Chapter 6: The Mock Tutorial Chapter 7: Taking Notes Chapter 8: Tutoring for Real Chapter 9: Reading in the Writing Center Chapter 10: Working With ESL Writers Chapter 11: Discourse Analysis Chapter 12: On-line Tutoring Chapter 13: Writing Center Ethics Chapter 14: Troubleshooting Recommended Readings List of Works Cited Index

182 pages
ISBN: 0-20529766-8

What we think is unique about our book is the presence of tutors throughout the book: there are copies of their reflective papers, tutoring journals, and session transcripts. Theirs are voices that we feel others will respond to well.

We organized the book not according to the stages of the writing process, but according to the structure of tutor training. So there are chapters on how to make mock tutorials effective, on how to make good sense of a session they observe, on how to take good notes.

We feel that reflection on the tutoring process, on their own writing processes, on their attitudes toward one-to-one learning, and on the training process are vital, so we invite them to engage in many different kinds of reflective processes and self-assessments.

The book includes a number of student papers the trainees can practice on. They can read these aloud to one another and practice formulating questions or structuring a session, or they can practice taking notes.

We tried to write the book in such a way that it could be used either with a class, in a small training group, or by individuals learning on their own.

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