Resources for Language Arts Tutors

This information is also for All Language Arts Tutors.

Online Tutoring Center: http://onlinetutoring.deanza.edu

Note: As of January, 2009 Online Tutoring has been suspended indefinitely due to budget liminations. The information below if for reference only. Drop-in tutoring is available at the Writing and Reading Center (WRC) in ATC 309. (Note that the WRC is closed in during summer quarter.)

• Resources for De Anza English instructors: http://group.deanza.edu/ETR/
• Download the L-47 Writing Tutor Resource Guide for a list of books and websites to help you help students in L-47.
• http://writing.berkeley.edu/newsite/moreresources.htm has more great links for writers and tutors.

De Anza Online Tutoring

• Online Tutoring Handbook
• Information About De Anza Online Tutoring
• Research on Online Tutoring by Katie Brundage, De Anza Online Tutor
• Katie's Flash presentation "Online Tutoring Services and the ESL Composition Writer
• Background on online tutoring at De Anza

Resources for Tutors

• L-47 Writing Tutor Resource Guide
  Responding in General/Advice for Tutors
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/tutor/toc.shtml
  Dartmouth Composition Center's Writing Tutor Handbook
• http://www.montreat.edu/tutor/
  Tutor.edu, a Manual for Writing Center Tutors
• http://www.psu.edu/dept/cew/writingcenter/handbook.htm#tutwrit
  The Penn State Writing Center Handbook for Peer Tutors in Writing
• http://flightline.highline.edu/wac/responding/respondtowriting.htm
  Highline Community College's guidelines for responding to student writing
• http://www.psu.edu/dept/cew/faculty/student.htm
  Penn State's Writing Across the Curriculum Program's advice on responding to student writing
• http://www.psu.edu/dept/cew/faculty/helping.htm
  Penn State's Helping Students Respond Helpfully to One Another's Writing
• http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/eiphand.html
  George Mason University Writing Center'sA Guide to Gracious Criticism
• http://writing2.richmond.edu/training/tough/index.html
  Training for Tough Tutorials University of Richmond's multimedia training for in-person writing tutors

Grammar Guides, Handouts, and Exercises

• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
  Webster's Guide to Grammar and Writing...interactive explanations, exercises, and quizzes on all aspects of writing and grammar
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
  Purdue's extensive handouts writing and grammar
• http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/writing-lab/help_pages.html
  Bowling Green state University's Writing Lab Help Pages

Responding Online

• Procedures for Online Tutors
• De Anza Online Writing Tutor Boilerplate Language and Sample Online Tutoring Session
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/tutoring/tips.html
  Purdue's Tips for E-Mail Tutoring inquiries
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/tutoring/boilerplate.html
  Purdue's "boilerplate" language for responding to common online tutoring inquiries
• http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/otis-t2.htm
  The Online Tutor's Role
• http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/double%5Fagent/ret_stac.html
  Sample of online tutoring sessions with analysis
• http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/033.shtml
  10 Tips on Using Computers to Respond to Student Writing
• http://www.ion.illinois.edu/Pointers/2000_07.html
  How to Mark Up Students' Text Electronically

Working with Second Language Students

• http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/sippell/eslmodule.htm
  Skyline College's ESL Tutor Training Module
• http://www.montreat.edu/tutor/9.htm
  Tutor.edu online training course
• http://flightline.highline.edu/wac/ESLstudents.htm
  Highline Community College's excellent advice for writing instructors and tutors
• http://flightline.highline.edu/wac/hierarchy_of_esl_error.htm
  Highline Community College's Understanding ESL Error: A Hierarchy
• http://slc.berkeley.edu/slc/nns/l2writing/tutoring/esltutoring.htm UC Berkeley's Student Learning Center's Second Language Writing Resources (for tutors)
• Notes on Generation 1.5 Characteristics of students who fall somewhere between ESL students and native speakers of English
• Generation 1.5 Students and College Writing by Linda Harklau, University of Georgia
  http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/0305harklau.html

The Writing Process

• http://slc.berkeley.edu/slc/nns/l2writing/process/process.htm
  UC Berkeley Student Learning Center's excellent links to help students through all stages of the writing process
• http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html#structure URichmond's great links to help at all stages
• http://http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/tutor/toc.shtml
  Dartmouth College Composition Center's explanation of The Process Approach to Teaching Writing
• http://www.powa.org/
  Paradigm Online Writing Assistant guides students through each stage of the writing process
• http://foothillglobalaccess.org/main/writing.htm
  PowerPoint presentations developed by Vivian Sinou, Dean of Distance & Mediated Learning at Foothill College. See especially Attitudes toward Writing, The Writing Process and Revision Strategies
• http://www.csuohio.edu/writingcenter/writproc.html
  CSU Ohio's graphic and text guide to the writing process for tutors and students
• http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/bedfordresearcher/
  Resources and tools-including interactive tutorials, research activities, student writing samples, and links to hundreds of other places online-to help them with all aspects of their research writing project.

Overview/Introduction to Online Tutoring

• http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/d.g.f.rowntree/Supporting%20online.htm
  The tutor's role in teaching via computer conferencing by Derek Rowntree. Long article about the role of the online tutor.
• http://www.jsu.edu/depart/edprof/zen/menu.html
  Tutoring on the Internet, by C. M. Zenanko and F. L. King. Extensive article from Jacksonville State University reviewing all existing formats of online tutoring in all subjects.
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/tutoring/tutoring.html
  Purdue's comparison of online versus face-to-face tutoring
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/tutoring/JacksonOnlineTutoring.html
  Interfacing the Faceless: Maximizing the Advantages of Online Tutoring by Justin Jackson
• http://www.ion.illinois.edu/IONresources/onlineLearning/StudentProfile.asp
  What Makes a Successful Online Student? (Illinois Online Network)

Background on Online Writing Centers (OWLs)

• http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/OWLguide/index.html
  The OWL construction and maintenance guide
• http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/cyberspace/cyberproject.html
  The Cyberspace Writing Center Consultation Project Writing Works
• http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/double_agent/toc.html
  The Online Tutor as Cross-Curricular Double Agent by Patricia Ericsson and Tim McGee, a comprehensive research report on everything related to online writing centers
• http://writingcenters.org/owcdb/index.php
  International Writing Center Asociation's list of online writing centers
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/writing-labs.html Purdue's OWL