1st Edition

The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis

By Jo Mackiewicz Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about writing. This book analyzes the aboutness of writing center talk—what tutors and student writers talk... Read more

1. A Mixed-Method Approach to the Aboutness Writing Center Talk



2. A Complement to Discourse Analysis of Writing Center Talk: Corpus Analysis



3. Methods



4. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk through Basic Characteristics



5. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Function Words



6. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Content Words



7. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Lexical Bundles



8. Conclusion

Biography

Jo Mackiewicz is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University, USA, where she codirects the Advanced Communication program. She earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her recent research focuses on tutoring strategies in writing center conferences. With Isabelle Thompson, she published Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors.