A Genre of Its Own: Training Tutors for Asynchronous Online Conferencing (2002)

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Face-to-face (f2f) conferences take place in writing centers on a daily basis between students and tutors. Tutors provide students with an audience, readers who respond to and describe what has been communicated in the students’ writing, and then tutors help identify ways to communicate in writing more effectively. To do this, tutors offer a wide variety of feedback, knowing that all strategies will not appeal to all students, therefore using presentation methods that will appeal to, and not alienate, a variety of students.

Citation Information

Type of Scholarship: Unpublished Manuscript

Author: Leslie Olsen

Year of Completion: 2002

Title:A Genre of Its Own: Training Tutors for Asynchronous Online Conferencing

Institution: Department of English, University of Washington