Talk about Writing

Reviews / Votes

TAW second edition provides an inspiring model for writing center research and its application to tutor training. The authors take a careful and systematic approach to revealing the unique powers of one-to-one instruction and interaction. The book provides fresh insights I can share with my tutors, colleagues, and dean. I love this new edition.

-Ben Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

Through detailed conversations between tutors and students, Mackiewicz and Thompson detail replicable and applicable approaches to research design and tutoring. Furthermore, the identified scaffolding strategies name and give technical terminology to familiar everyday practices like suggesting, politeness, and joking, which will help tutors understand the theoretical foundations of their own work.

-Randall W. Monty, PhD., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

When TAW appeared, readers-especially those in writing centers-applauded the carefully researched system of coding and analyzing tutor-student talk. Now, the second edition broadens the authors' contribution to the study of spoken language by expanding the discussion of their coding system and by suggesting other ways to code and study verbal communication.

-Muriel Harris, Purdue University, USA

In this revised edition, Mackiewicz and Thompson have substantially expanded their discussion of methods, detailing transcription process and conventions and evolving an even more reliable coding scheme to share with those who study writing center talk. By returning to their data with fresh eyes, they offer readers a glimpse of their own development as researchers.

-Terese Thonus, University of Baltimore, USA TAW 2nd edition provides an inspiring model for writing center research and its application to tutor training. The authors take a careful and systematic approach to revealing the unique powers of one-to-one instruction and interaction. The book provides fresh insights I can share with my tutors, colleagues, and dean. I love this new edition.

- Ben Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

Through detailed conversations between tutors and students, Mackiewicz and Thompson detail replicable and applicable approaches to research design and tutoring. Furthermore, the identified scaffolding strategies name and give technical terminology to familiar everyday practices like suggesting, politeness, and joking, which will help tutors understand the theoretical foundations of their own work.

-Randall W. Monty, PhD., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

When TAW appeared, readers-especially those in writing centers-applauded the carefully researched system of coding and analyzing tutor-student talk. Now, the 2nd edition broadens the authors' contribution to the study of spoken language by expanding the discussion of their coding system and by suggesting other ways to code and study verbal communication.

-Muriel Harris, Purdue University, USA

In this revised edition, Mackiewicz and Thompson have substantially expanded their discussion of methods, detailing transcription process and conventions and evolving an even more reliable coding scheme to share with those who study writing center talk. By returning to their data with fresh eyes, they offer readers a glimpse of their own development as researchers.

-Terese Thonus, University of Baltimore, USA