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ESL writers : a guide for writing center tutors / edited by Shanti Bruce & Ben Rafoth.

Contributor(s): Bruce, Shanti [editor.] | Rafoth, Bennett A [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 242 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780867095944; 0867095946Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Tutors and tutoring -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Writing centers -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 808/.042/071 LOC classification: PE1404 | .E83 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Before the conversation : a sketch of some possible backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes among ESL students visiting a writing center / Ilona Leki -- Theoretical perspectives on learning a second language / Theresa Jiinling Tseng -- Breaking ice and setting goals : tips for getting started / Shanti Bruce -- Reading an ESL writer's text / Paul Kei Matsuda and Michelle Cox -- Avoiding appropriation / Carol Severino -- "Earth aches by midnight" : helping ESL writers clarify their intended meaning / Amy Jo Minett -- Looking at the whole text / Jennifer E. Staben and Kathryn Dempsey Nordhaus -- Meeting in the middle : bridging the construction of meaning with generation 1.5 learners / Jennifer J. Ritter and Trygve Sandvik -- A(n)/The/Ø article about articles / Sharon K. Deckert -- Editing line by line / Cynthia Linville -- Tutoring ESL students in online hybrid (synchronous and asynchronous) writing centers / Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch and Linda S. Clemens -- Responding online / Ben Rafoth -- Raising questions about plagiarism / Kurt Bouman -- Writing activities for ESL workers / Kevin Dvorak -- The role of writing in higher education in Germany / Gerd Bräuer -- Being a linguistic foreigner : learning from international tutoring / Linda S. Bergmann, Gerd Bräuer, Robert Cedillo [and others] -- English for those who (think they) already know it / Ben Rafoth -- Listening to and learning from ESL writers / Shanti Bruce.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Before the conversation : a sketch of some possible backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes among ESL students visiting a writing center / Ilona Leki -- Theoretical perspectives on learning a second language / Theresa Jiinling Tseng -- Breaking ice and setting goals : tips for getting started / Shanti Bruce -- Reading an ESL writer's text / Paul Kei Matsuda and Michelle Cox -- Avoiding appropriation / Carol Severino -- "Earth aches by midnight" : helping ESL writers clarify their intended meaning / Amy Jo Minett -- Looking at the whole text / Jennifer E. Staben and Kathryn Dempsey Nordhaus -- Meeting in the middle : bridging the construction of meaning with generation 1.5 learners / Jennifer J. Ritter and Trygve Sandvik -- A(n)/The/Ø article about articles / Sharon K. Deckert -- Editing line by line / Cynthia Linville -- Tutoring ESL students in online hybrid (synchronous and asynchronous) writing centers / Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch and Linda S. Clemens -- Responding online / Ben Rafoth -- Raising questions about plagiarism / Kurt Bouman -- Writing activities for ESL workers / Kevin Dvorak -- The role of writing in higher education in Germany / Gerd Bräuer -- Being a linguistic foreigner : learning from international tutoring / Linda S. Bergmann, Gerd Bräuer, Robert Cedillo [and others] -- English for those who (think they) already know it / Ben Rafoth -- Listening to and learning from ESL writers / Shanti Bruce.

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