Describes the training program for new tutors which is employed by the Student Learning Center at the University of California at Berkeley. (DD)

Describes a credit-bearing course at Brooklyn College which trains undergraduates to be peer-tutors in writing. (DD)

Describes how Nassau Community College uses peer tutors to help students with severe writing problems. (DD)

An approach to the teaching of composition undertaken by the University of South Carolina writing laboratory is described in which the objective is to educate students and teachers in the composition process and to discover more about how writing is learned. Focus is on helping people learn to think. (LBH)

This study describes in detail the synthesis of two relatively new, widely accepted and critically approved teaching methods, writing workshops and peer tutoring programs, in a coordinated program designed to improve student writing skills and attitudes. After tracing the origin of this experiment to specific concerns about the use of standard…

Describes a successful experimental program at West Virginia University which involved using undergraduate English Education majors as tutors in the Writing Laboratory. (DD)

Advocates individualizing remedial writing courses at the college level and describes three programs that emphasize individual placement, focus on student writing rather than on workbook materials, and offer peer tutoring. (MKM)