An investigation of the quantity and quality of collaboration in writing center tutorial
Jessica Clark
- School: Purdue University (0183)
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Date: 2005; pp: 104
- Advisor: Bergmann, Linda
- Source: DAI-A 66/10, p. 3630, Apr 2006
- Subjects: Language, Rhetoric And Composition (0681); Education, Curriculum And Instruction (0727)
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- ISBN: 0-542-34835-7
- UMI Number: AAT 3191443
Abstract:
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This dissertation studies the nature of collaboration in writing center tutorials. A case study
examined fifteen tutorials between graduate tutors and undergraduate students to try to determine
how much collaboration occurs in tutorials. Information about their perspectives of and
satisfaction with these tutorials was gathered from the participating tutors and students
and compared to the data gathered from the tutorials. The data from the tutorials showed that
the tutors were not as highly collaborative as they believed themselves to be. Focus groups and
interviews revealed these beliefs and perceptions and also showed that these tutors, all of whom
received almost identical training, each held different definitions of collaboration and
how it should be practiced in writing center tutorials. Surveys of the students who participated
in the tutorials showed that they perceived their tutorials as being collaborative. These
surveys also showed that the students were satisfied with the help they received.
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