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An Ethical Question about On-line Tutoring in the Writing Lab (1994)

The recent advent of on-line computer network tutoring, however, raises an important question about tutors' interactions with students who are having this conceptual kind of writing difficulty. The Online Writing Lab (OWL), a new service of the Purdue University Writing Lab, for example, provides students across campus with the opportunity to ask questions about writing and then to receive a response from a tutor, usually within a day.

Towards a Rhetoric of On-line Tutoring (1994)

In the spring of 1993 I got this great idea: why not turn a writing tutorial into an actual writing tutorial? So often writing center tutorials have nothing to do with the act of writing. Students read aloud, make conversation, do some editing or planning. but rarely compose or communicate in writing.

Some Questions about the Politics of On-line Tutoring in Electronic Writing Centers (1994)

On-line writing tutorials are evidence of the advance of computer technology into the “safe” space of the writing center. Swirling conversations about writing operate there in a seemingly time-less, space-less space.

Computer Conversations: E-mail and Writing Instruction (1987)

Keywords Email, Personal computers, Writing instruction, Written composition, Computers in…