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A brief guide with an anthology of scholarly essays and FAQs on tutoring and coverage of online writing.
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Fourth Edition| 2011

Christina Murphy; Steve Sherwood

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Part I. The Tutoring Process: Exploring Paradigms and Practices 
 
Tutoring and the Paradigms of Writing Instruction
The Tutor's Role: Developing an Informed Practice
Dimensions of the Tutorial
Tutoring Online
Multimodal Tutoring
On Becoming an Effective Tutor
 
Part II. Readings: Entering the Professional Conversation

THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS
Stephen North
, “The Idea of a Writing Center”
*Stephen North, “Revisiting 'The Idea of a Writing Center”
Andrea Lunsford, “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center”
*Peter Vandenberg, “Lessons of Inscription: Tutor Training and the 'Professionl Conversation'”
*Steve Sherwood, “Portrait of the Tutor as an Artist: Lessons No One Can Teach” 
  
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TUTORING
*Peter Carino, “Power and Authority in Peer Tutoring”
Jeff Brooks, “Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work”
Linda K. Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns, “A Critique of Pure Tutoring”
*Steven J. Corbett, “Tutoring Style, Tutoring Ethics: The Continuing Relevance of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Debate”
*Carl Glover, “Kairos and the Writing Center: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Idea”
*David Bringhurst, “Identifying Our Ethical Responsibility: A Criterion-Based Approach”
*Terese Thonus, “Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What Is 'Success'?”
*Neal Lerner, “Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the 'Proof' of Our Effectiveness”
*Carol Severino and Megan Knight, “Exporting Writing Center Pedagogy: Writing Fellows Programs As Ambassadors for the Writing Center”
*Jacob S. Blumner, “A Writing Center-Education Department Collaboration: Training Teachers to Work One-on-One”
 
AFFIRMING DIVERSITY
Anne DiPardo, “'Whispers of Coming and Going': Lessons from Fannie”
Julie Neff, “Learning Disabilities and the Writing Center”
*Harry Denny, “Queering the Writing Center”
Sharon A. Myers, “Reassessing the 'Proofreading Trap': ESL Tutoring and Writing Instruction”
*Nancy Barron and Nancy Grimm, “Addressing Racial Diversity in a Writing Center: Stories and Lessons from Two Beginners”
 
EXPLORATIONS: THE MULTIMODAL WRITING CENTER
*Lisa Bell, “Preserving the Rhetorical Nature of Tutoring When Going Online”
*David Sheridan, “Words, Images, Sounds:  Writing Centers as Multiliteracy Centers”
*Jackie Grutsch McKinney, "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print”
*Christina Murphy and Lory Hawkes, “The Future of Multiliteracy Centers in the E-World: An Exploration of Cultural Narratives and Cultural Transformation”
 
Part III. Resources for Further Inquiry

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)
The National Conference On Peer Tutoring In Writing (NCPTW)
Online Resources
Electronic Networks and Blogs
Journals
Books and Articles
Grammar Hotline Directory
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Fourth Edition| 2011

Christina Murphy; Steve Sherwood

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Christina Murphy

Christina Murphy is the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She has served as the President of the National Writing Centers Association and has published widely on writing center issues. Her coedited books on writing centers include Landmark Essays on Writing Centers (1995); Writing Center Perspectives (1995); Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (1996); The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (2001); and The Writing Center Director's Resource Book (2006). She also has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in a range of journals and essay collections. Murphy has served as the editor of two national journals, Composition Studies and Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, and of the regional journal English in Texas. Her short stories and poems have appeared in over fifty journals and five anthologies, and she has received an Editor’s Choice award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.


Steve Sherwood

Steve Sherwood is the Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University. Currently an at-large representative to the International Writing Centers Association Executive Board, he is a past president of the South Central Writing Centers Association.  His essays have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, Journal of Teaching Writing, Dialogue, Writing Lab Newsletter, Writing Center Perspectives, Wiring the Writing Center, The Writing Center Resource Manual, English in Texas, Weber Studies, Rendezvous, and other journals.  With Christina Murphy and Joe Law, he compiled Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1996), for which Murphy, Law, and Sherwood received a 1997 National Writing Centers Association award. In 2003, Sherwood’s novel Hardwater won the George Garrett Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Texas Review Press, which published the novel in 2005.

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