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The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk

The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis - Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 about when they come together to talk about writing. By combining corpus-driven analysis to provide a quantitative, microlevel view of the subject matter and sociocultural discourse analysis to provide a qualitative macrolevel view of tutor-student writer interactions, it further establishes how these two research methods operate together to produce a robust and rigorous analysis of spoken discourse.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138688025
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 808.042071173
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 172
Weight: 370g
Height: 159mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 15mm