Writing Center/ Composition & Rhetoric
The Center Will Hold
Pemberton, Kinhead, editors
Presents essays about writing center issues,
including peer tutoring, office space, Electronic tutoring.
© 2003
The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, 3rd ed
Leigh Ryan
Light- hearted, yet to the point, this guides
writing tutors in the process of tutoring; it also name students'writing
challenges and offers helpful guidance.
© 2002
Clueless in Academe
Gerald Graff
Theorizes the reasons students have trouble grasping
the academic pursuit of deep comprehension and good writing.
© 2003
A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One
Ben Rafoth, editor
Focuses on problems and concerns encountered in tutorial sessions. Offers concrete suggestions for writing center practices and future tutoring sessions.
© 2000
Small Groups in Writing Workshops: Invitations to a Writer's Life
Robert Brooke, Ruth Mirtz, and Rick Evans
The authors suggest that teachers can creatively use students' own individual reflections to guide growth in writing by incorporating small-groupwork in their writing workshops.
© 1994
The Web of Meaning: Essays on Writing, Teaching, Learning, and Thinking
Janet Emig
A collection of eleven talks and papers, spanning almost twenty years, that consider writing in relation to cognition, teaching, learning, rhetoric, and psychology.
© 1983
Talking Sketching Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing
Patricia A. Dunn
Challenges the text-based bias in traditional writing instruction and composition theory. Expands upon oral, visual, kinesthetic, spatial, and other unexplored ways of teaching critical language skills.
© 2001
Voices on Voice: Perspectives, Definitions, Inquiry
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Uses many perspectives to explore the questions and issues surrounding voice in writing.
© 1994
Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing
Richard Straub & Ronald F. Lunsford, editors
Twelve teacher-scholars examine the art of responding to student writing. The book is rooted in theory, but oriented towards practical guidance for teachers about giving comments, forming grading rubrics, and dealing with various kinds of student writing.
© 1995
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers / 3rd Edition
Erika Lindemann
Emphasizes workshops, collaborative learning, and holistic evaluation. Shows teachers how to guide students through composing.
© 1995
Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing
Mina P. Shaughnessy
This guide is oriented towards teachers of writing, and offers them strategies, examples, and exercises.
© 1977
Weaving Knowledge Together: Writing Centers and Collaboration
Carol Peterson Haviland, Maria Notarangelo, Lene Whitley-Putz & Thia Wolf, editors
Examines the collaboration between writing tutors and student writers at writing centers.
© 1998
Tutoring Writing: A Practical Guide for Conferences
Donald A. McAndrew and Thomas J. Reigstad. Foreword by Wendy Bishop
Offers a toolbox of practical tutoring tips with which to assist writers at various stages of the composing process.
© 2001
The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook
Edward P.J. Corbett, Nancy Myers and Gary Tate
A sourcebook for teachers of writing. Emphasizes the importance of adapting good pedagogy to multiple environments and audiences.
© 2000
The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing / 3rd Edition
Robert Connors and Cheryl Glenn
Explores the teaching and learning of writing by focusing on specific classroom practices as well as larger theoretical questions.
© 1995
Situating Portfolios
Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser, editors
A collection of essays about portfolios--their writing as well as their assessment. The articles discuss portfolios in electronic spaces, current and possible contexts for portfolios, and pedagogical issues pertaining to portfolios.
© 1997
Wiring the Writing Center
Eric H. Hobson, editor
Addresses the theory and application of technology in the writing center.
© 1998
Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times
Nancy Maloney Grimm
Suggests that writing centers can turn to postmodern theory to realize their capacity to intervene in an often oppressive system of education.
© 1999
The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, Nedra Reynolds
A bibliography that cites works of classical rhetoric as well as recently produced works on writing, composition, and pedagogy.
© 2000
The Writing Center: New Directions
Ray Wallace & Jeanne Simpson, editors
Offers examples and ideas through which to reconsider the contribution of writing centers to writing across the curriculum.
© 1991
Landmark Essays on Writing Process
Sondra Perl, editor
A collection of essays about various components of the writing process.
© 1994
Stories from the Center: Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center
Lynn Craigue Briggs & Meg Woolbright, editors
Through a series of narrative essays, this book explores the "stories" that writing center directors and tutors tell about their work with students.
©
2000
Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work
James A. Inman & Donna N. Sewell, editors
Examines and theorizes the use of computer technology in writing centers.
© 2000
Issues in Writing: Education, Government, Arts & Humanities, Business & Industry, Science & Technology
Bobbie Stokes, W. John Coletta, Mark Balhorn, Judy Peplinski, & Dan Dieterich, editors
This volume is addressed to teachers from various disciplines, and focuses on how they can help students to write effectively in their fields.
© 1999
The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice
Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner
An anthology of esays about writing center theory and practice.
© 2001
Landmark Essays on Writing Centers
Christina Murphy and Joe Law, editors
This collection of essays introduces the reader to the ideas that have shaped writing center theory and practice.
© 1995
Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference
Laurel Johnson Black
Explores the conflicting meanings and relations embedded in conferencing. Offers both a new theoretical understanding and a practical approach to conferencing more effectively with students.
© 1998
The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring
Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner
Examines the peer tutoring process and addresses ongoing issues, scenarios, and outcomes in the writing center setting.
© 2000
The Bedford Guide For Writing Tutors / 2nd Edition
Leigh Ryan
Guides writing tutors through different stages of the writing process, and offers them practical advice for the writing center session.
© 1998
Noise from the Writing Center
Elizabeth H. Boquet
This book combines writing center anecdotes, composition theory, and thoughts about music and art to suggest a more improvisational approach to writing center work.
© 2002
Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies
Joyce A. Kinkead and Jeanette G. Harris, editoris
A collection of case studies of writing centers from colleges and universities, each representing its own philosophy, clientele, and institutional context. Includes a useful bibliography of writing center theory.
© 1993
Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation
Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, et al., editors
A collection of essays that demonstrates a range of methodologies and offers diverse viewpoints on writing center research.
© 2002
Writing and Revising the Disciplines
Jonathan Monroe, editor
A collection of essays in which distinguished academics reflect on revising and writing in their disciplinary contexts.
© 2002
Teaching Lives: Essays and Stories
Wendy Bishop
This collection of essays on pedagogy and composition combines autobiography and theory. Bishop explores connections among composition, literature, research, and creative writing in the context of teaching.
© 1997
Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition
Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Vrooks, and Ann Watters, editors
An anthology of essays that attempts to break away from the interdisciplinary model of education, instead "writing the community" through a focus on service-oriented education.
© 1997
Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader
Victor Villanueva, Jr., editor
An overview of thirty years in composition theory. The "cross-talk" refers to the lively interplay of arguments and influences among these essays.
© 1997
Composition in Four Keys: Inquiring Into the Field
Mark Wiley, Barbara Gleason and Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Introduces novice scholars to the field of composition and rhetoric and helps them find--and learn to create--patterns to make the literature of nature, art, science, and poetics intelligible.
© 1996
The Politics Of Writing Centers
Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz, editors
An attempt to map the "terrain of power" in which writing centers are situated. The writers explore the relationship between the writing center and other campus communities, investigating the conflicts that can arise and suggesting positive approaches.
© 2001
The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors/ 2nd Edition
Christina Murphy and Steve Sherwood
Presents current ideas about tutoring, and discusses the practical implications of writing center theory. Examines the ethical aspects of the tutorial exchange, and attends to the issues involved in various forms of online tutoring.
© 2003
Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
Larry Weinstein
Along with a theoretical discussion of composition instruction, the book offers 56 specific ideas that will help teachers prepare students for college-level writing and composition.
© 2001