A Tutor Needs to Know the Subject Matter to Help a Student with a Paper: []Agree []Disagree []Not Sure.

Hubbuch, Susan M.

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Publication Date: 1988

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A Tutor Needs to Know the Subject Matter to Help a Student with a Paper: []Agree []Disagree []Not Sure.

Hubbuch, Susan M.

Writing Center Journal, v8 n2 p23-30 Spr-Sum 1988

Contrasts the advantages and disadvantages of writing center tutors who are familiar with the subject matter in a given field or discipline with those who are not. Asserts that by being "ignorant" of the subject matter, a tutor forces students to take responsibility for their writing. (MM)

Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Student Relationship, Tutor Training, Tutors, Writing Laboratories

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