English 377: Peer Tutoring
The Harcourt Brace Guide
to Peer Tutoring by
Toni-Lee Capossela
Table of Contents
Chapters
Chapter 1. What a Peer Consultant Is and Isn’t
Chapter 2. Getting to Know You
Chapter 3. Getting Started
Chapter 4. Analyzing an Assignment
Chapter 5. Finding a Focus
Chapter 6. Organizing and Developing a Draft
Chapter 7. Correcting Surface Errors
Chapter 8. Editing, Proofreading, and Preparing a Polished Draft
Chapter 9. Working with Teachers’ Comments
Chapter 10. Specific Kinds of Writing
Chapter 11. Specific Kinds of Writers
Chapter 12. The Virtual Writing Center: Computer-Assisted Consulting
Works Cited
Readings
John Trimber. "’Peer Tutoring’: A Contradiction in Terms."
Jennifer C. Maloney. "Progression."
Kenneth A. Bruffee. "Peer Tutoring and ‘The Conversation of Mankind.’"
Jeannine A. Broadwell. "Rehabilitating the Writing Center Junkie."
Peter Elbow. "The Voyage Out."
James M. Tilt, Jr. "The Session that Wasn’t Really a Session."
Linda Flower and John R. Hayes. "The Cognition of Discovery."
Elizabeth Foote. "An Experience to Remember."
Jennifer Brice. "Northern Literacies, Northern Realities."
Lynette Gajtka. "I Am Eager to Begin."
Nancy Sommers. "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers."
Joy A. Farmer. "The Twenty Minute Solution: Mapping in the Writing Center."
Mina Shaughnessy. "Introduction to Errors and Expectations."
Richard Lanham. "Who’s Kicking Who?"
Kathleen P. Higgins. "A Little Trip to the Writing Center."
Lil Brannon and C.H. Knoblauch. "On Students’ Rights to Their Own Texts."
James E. Herrington. "In Defense of Thesis Statements."
Jean Kiedaisch and Sue Dinitz. "Look Back and Say ‘So What?’: The Limitations of a Generalist Tutor."
Michael J. Pytlak. "Seeing the Light."
Judith K. Powers. "Rethinking the Writing Center Conferencing Strategies for the ESL Writer."
David Coogan. "Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Consulting."
Russell Baker. "The Processing Process."