Working with Student Writers: Essays on Tutoring and Teaching Book

	Introduction	1
I	Tutoring Writing: Practical Advice	9
	Working at the Drop-In Center	15
	On Working with a Class	23
	Speaking the Written Voice	33
II	Perspectives on Peer Tutoring	39
	Training Peer Tutors for the Writing Lab	45
	Peer Tutors and Institutional Authority	53
	Peer Tutors: What the Teacher Can Learn	59
III	Facilitating and Responding to Student Writing	67
	"Like, it was, you know what I mean?": Conversational vs. Presentational Speech in Student Academic Discourse	73
	Improving Our Responses to Student Writing: A Process-Oriented Approach	85
	The Dilemmas of Grading	95
IV	Writing in the Classroom: Approaches and Methods	101
	Perspectives on the Writing Classroom	107
	No Answers: Interrogating "Truth" in Writing	117
	Identifying and Teaching Rhetorical Plans for Arrangement	123
V	Writer's Block and Authority	139
	Learning from Writer's Block	143
	Consciousness, Frustration, and Power: The Making of Contextual Writer's Block	151
	Authority Issues in Online Instruction	169
VI	Discourse Communities: Issues and Problems	179
	Scientific Writing: What's So Difficult About It Anyway?	185
	Defining a Persona Within the Boundaries of Academic Discourse, or God, I Sound Like a Pretentious Ass	193
	Traveling the Middle Ground: Bridging the Dichotomies Between Academic and Personal Discourse	199
VII	Empowering Marginalized Learners	207
	My Hidden Class-Consciousness	213
	Writing in Academia: The Politics of "Style"	221
	Writing Tutors and Dyslexic Tutees: Is There Something Special We Should Know?	229
VIII	Politics of Literacy: Challenging Traditional Approaches	239
	How Much to Tell? The Role of the Teacher in the Politicized Classroom	243
	On the Use of "I" in Academic Writing	251
	My Paper	261
IX	Identity Issues in the Teaching of Writing	267
	Caught Between Skin Color and Dialect: A Non-Essentialist View of Black English	271
	"The Me Experience": Composing as a Man	285