Improving University Students’ Writing Skills in Pakistan [PDF]
The European Educational Researcher, 2018 The education system of Pakistan is not unified. Students mainly attend three types of schools with different languages as medium of instruction; private schools, public schools and religious schools (called locally madrassas).
María Isabel Maldonado García
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Review of Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, Edited by David M. Sheridan and James A. Inman [PDF]
, 2012 While writing center directors will certainly want to read Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, a new collection edited by David M.
Gabor, Catherine
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Mapping Tutorial Interactions: A Report on Results and Implications [PDF]
, 2012 At the University of Rhode Island (URI), we believe that assessment of writing center interactions can be useful beyond conventional efforts to measure the effects and effectiveness of tutoring strategies in sessions with student writers.
Dyehouse, Jeremiah +2 more
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Colleagues, Classmates, and Friends: Graduate versus Undergraduate Tutor Identities and Professionalization [PDF]
, 2017 This study provides a new framework for thinking about the value of writing center work by illuminating how tutors define and negotiate their various and emergent identities as students and as professionals. We build on conversations about tutor identity
Buck H., Elisabeth, Grouling, Jennifer
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Afterword: Narratives that Determine Writers and Social Justice Writing Center Work [PDF]
, 2016 Recently, I took over as my campus’ writing center director. I’ll be honest. I haven’t worked in a writing center since I was a graduate student at Oregon State (that was in the early 90s). I have a lot to learn.
Inoue, Asao B.
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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2018 A Review of: Jackson, H. A. (2017). Collaborating for student success: An e-mail survey of U.S. libraries and writing centers. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 43(4), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.04.005 Abstract Objective
Brittany Richardson
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The Message is the Medium: Electronically Helping Writing Tutors Help Electronically [PDF]
, 2013 The history of online writing centers is a history of doubt. I experienced those reservations in 2009, when, in addition to traditional face-to-face peer tutoring, I launched my own online peer tutoring program and began training undergraduates to ...
Kavadlo, Jesse
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Design of e-learning and online tutoring as learning support for academic writing [PDF]
AAOU Journal, 2019 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development and assessment of learning support environments for academic writing that utilize ICT, such as e-learning and online tutoring, in Japanese higher education.
Chiaki Iwasaki +6 more
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The Secondary School Writing Center: A Place to Build Confident, Competent Writers [PDF]
, 2003 The three of us led an International Writing Centers Association-sponsored allday workshop on secondary school writing centers at the NCTE Convention. Writing centers at all levels follow the theoretical background of Bruffee, Murray, Elbow, and North,
Childers, Pamela B. +2 more
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The Online Writing Center: Reaching Out To Students With Disabilities [PDF]
, 2015 The case for online Writing Center services has been built upon arguments of geographical needs, cost effectiveness, and overall time efficiency. A largely overlooked population who would benefit from these online services is that of students with ...
Ries, Stephanie
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