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This is my favorite description of how to read a student paper. I think its advice is particularly appropriate for writing tutors, who need to find a middle ground between the role of professor and the experience of the student writer.
This is also from the Dartmouth OWL website, in the section for writers.
A site with composition advice on nearly every topic, maintained by Sandra Gollin Kies of Benedictine University and Daniel Kies of DuPage
Companion to the book of the same title with hyperlinks to useful sources. A great way to help newly-minted high school graduates adapt to college-level writing expectations.
Sometimes tutors get asked for help writing White Paper assignments. This site explains what the White Paper Format is.
Good ideas for helping basic writers with the 5-paragraph essay.
Non-American taxonymy of writing types. Useful for tutors who work with English-speaking students not in the US.
Helps with those essay coming from classes heavy on classical rhetoric techniques.
Great resource for helping figure out what idiom your esl student is hung up on.
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This is a collection of links that answer questions tutors may run into while working with student writers in both synchronous and asynchronous settings. Most of the links will also be useful for anyone who teaches writing or who is learning to write. Includes excellent citation style resources.
Updated on 2009-10-23
Created on 2009-03-13
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