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This open-access book by Steven J. Corbett, Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pegagogies, is available to be downloaded free. it is described as follows: How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs, as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and discourse analyses and ethnographic and case-study) investigations center on several course-based tutoring (CBT) partnerships at two universities. Rather than practice separately in the center or in the classroom, rather than seeing teacher here and tutor there and student over there, CBT asks all participants in the dynamic drama of teaching and learning to consider the many possible means of connecting synergistically. This book offers the "more-is-more" value of designing more peer-to-peer learning situations for developmental and multicultural writers, and a more elaborate view of what happens in these peer-centered learning environments. It offers important implications-especially of directive and nondirective tutoring strategies and methods-for peer-to-peer learning and one-to-one tutoring and conferencing for all teachers and learners of writing.

a discussion of the relationship between writing centers and developmental writing departments see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=13685130 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=19068162

a report from an academic skills center that offers tutoring in developmental reading and writing and English intro courses; article on using the center to train potential English teachers; mailing list

a discussion of directive vs. non-directive methods and other techniques for working with developmental writers

resources related to working with developmental writers in the writing center see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=20149331

report on a WC that offers help to basic writers; questions from a WC that is just getting started; mailing list

a report on how one center has worked to generate student interest (and so gain departmental funding); a report on "Autotutor: A Branching Self-Instruction Program"; a report on achieving competency with basic writers; mailing list