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Serving Generation 1.5 Learners in the University Writing Center
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Acquaintanceship, familiarity, and coordinated laughter in writing tutorials
(Linguistics and Education, 2008)This study compared the frequency, structure, and purposes of laughter in writing tutorials between 46 acquainted and unacquainted tutor–student pairs. Of particular interest were instances of shared, or coordinated laughter, ... -
Triangulation in the Writing Center: Tutor, Tutee, and Instructor Perceptions of the Tutor's Role
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Dominance in Academic Writing Tutorials: Gender, Language, and the Offering of Suggestions
(Sage, 1999)This article investigates tutor dominance in academic writing tutorials within the framework of institutional discourse. Tutor gender and tutee gender and language proficiency, as well as the interaction of the three, are ... -
Tutor and Student Assessments of Academic Writing Tutorials: What is "Success"?
(Elsevier, 2002)The university writing center provides a key support service within the institution, and as such must find ways to evaluate the impact of the instruction they provide. However, many studies of tutorial effectiveness lack ... -
What are the Differences? Tutor Interactions with First- and Second-Language Writers
(Elsevier, 2004)This paper reports on a decade of research into the nature of interactions between writing center tutors and native speakers (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) tutees. It explores and describes the structure of this ...