tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790062.post3078157980033299766..comments2024-03-27T08:11:29.257-06:00Comments on PeerCentered: "Pure " Tutoring?Clint Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07671508034667904543noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790062.post-51139066613429731002009-11-13T19:47:25.887-07:002009-11-13T19:47:25.887-07:00Nice post. I agree with you that students should k...Nice post. I agree with you that students should know the writers of their course material. Quick conversation between the both is also essential. The best way to bridge this gap is to develop a specific blog for the students and teachers. Some students don’t share their problems because of many reasons.writing assignmenthttp://www.tutorskingdom.com/assignment_help/assignmenthelp.aspx?action=11&myHead=Essay+Writing+Helpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790062.post-80039358627020358102009-11-13T12:35:50.010-07:002009-11-13T12:35:50.010-07:00I’m not sure that I understand exactly what you me...I’m not sure that I understand exactly what you mean by directive and purely collaborative, but hopefully my comments are relevant to your point.<br /><br />Andrea Lunsford wrote an article called “Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing.” In it she describes several different ideas of writing centers. The first type is a garret where the writer comes and sequesters themselves. Everything comes from inside the writer and the only support from the tutor is encouragement of the writer’s genius. The second is a storehouse where the writer comes to get information doled out to them, and then they leave. I believe that these two models of writing centers are similar to what you meant by being exclusively directive or collaborative.<br />You seem to espouse the idea of a combination of the two: outside help from the tutors as well as the inner knowledge of the student. Lunsford’s third writing center model seems to fit closest to that. The final model is a Burkean Parlor (based on Kenneth Burke’s “Unending Conversation”). Both the tutor and the student are coming at writing from the perspective of a conversation. The learning in this type of center comes from the group discussion, a type of negation.<br /><br />I wonder if you really mean collaborative versus directive styles of tutoring or if your point is closer to Lunsford but using different terms.<br /><br />If you want to read the full Lunsford article, you can read it here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/wln/Volume16/v1604&5.pdf<br /><br />Here is the quote from Kenneth Burke on his unending conversation metaphor: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/7.3/coverweb/bonadonna/conversation.htmlOut of Joint Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480369706661791788noreply@blogger.com