ESL writers : a guide for writing center tutors / edited by Shanti Bruce & Ben Rafoth. - 2nd ed. - Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, c2009. - xii, 242 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Before the conversation : a sketch of some possible backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes among ESL students visiting a writing center / Theoretical perspectives on learning a second language / Breaking ice and setting goals : tips for getting started / Reading an ESL writer's text / Avoiding appropriation / "Earth aches by midnight" : helping ESL writers clarify their intended meaning / Looking at the whole text / Meeting in the middle : bridging the construction of meaning with generation 1.5 learners / A(n)/The/Ø article about articles / Editing line by line / Tutoring ESL students in online hybrid (synchronous and asynchronous) writing centers / Responding online / Raising questions about plagiarism / Writing activities for ESL workers / role of writing in higher education in Germany / Being a linguistic foreigner : learning from international tutoring / English for those who (think they) already know it / Listening to and learning from ESL writers / Ilona Leki -- Theresa Jiinling Tseng -- Shanti Bruce -- Paul Kei Matsuda and Michelle Cox -- Carol Severino -- Amy Jo Minett -- Jennifer E. Staben and Kathryn Dempsey Nordhaus -- Jennifer J. Ritter and Trygve Sandvik -- Sharon K. Deckert -- Cynthia Linville -- Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch and Linda S. Clemens -- Ben Rafoth -- Kurt Bouman -- Kevin Dvorak -- Gerd Bräuer -- Linda S. Bergmann, Gerd Bräuer, Robert Cedillo ...[et al.] -- Ben Rafoth -- Shanti Bruce. The

"Filled with suggestions and strategies based on a rigorous combination of experience, research, and theory, ESL Writers, Second Edition, remains a tutor's top resource for working with English learners."-back cover.

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English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Tutors and tutoring--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Writing centers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

PE1404 / .E83 2009

808/.042/071