Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring

by Paula Gillespie, Neal Lerner

Grounded in current writing center theory and practice, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring provides students with a comprehensive introduction to effective tutoring . Throughout the text, readers hear the voices of tutors and writers in first-person peer tutor accounts, reflective essays, and transcripts from actual sessions. Within each chapter, techniques, models, and exercises provide instruction appropriate for any level of tutoring.

Genres: Writing, Teaching

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2007

Reviews

[Whitney Atkinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished this like over a month ago but apparently i've been neglecting goodreads lol. boring and not for light reading but for all the time i spent reading this for my internship and doing other schoolwork, i might as well mark a book as read on goodreads

[Emily Krueger · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the formatting of this text, but was not extremely useful.

[Nate Markham · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good book, though I disagree with them throughout. They use non directional teaching methods which I am not crazy about. I do see the up side to being non directional with students, but not so much as a golden rule. I think non directional teaching comes off as confusing, manipulative, and dishonest when practiced to an extreme. The book does offer a lot of direction for writing center tutors and was an immense help in training me to tutor using writing center methodology. Some of the ideas in the book put me off and I think would put many students off as well. I think I might prefer a more traditional tutoring style.

[Zach Irvin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very helpful and informative. It was interesting reading this after having tutored last semester. I found some things I did right, some that I did wrong, and got some ideas for the future. Sometimes it was a little hard to get through, but I guess that's to be expected from a book such as this. The authors did a good job showing the complicated nature of writing tutoring, but they did so while presenting it in a fairly straight forward manner.

[Bill DeGenaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

The odd numbered chapters were especially helpful planning our campus' Fall 2013 Writing Center orientation/workshop. The authors use lots of narrative and student testimonial to articulate a sound, thorough framework for peer consultation.

[Samantha Mason · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just riveting!

[Putra · Rating 5 out of 5]

i need your book, iwant to read