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The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors

A brief guide to tutoring, with an anthology of essays. The fourth edition introduces sophisticated approaches to tutoring students of varying cultural backgrounds and new attention to technology, activity theory, ethical dimensions of tutoring writing, and challenges to theories of the writing process.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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