Some Resource Materials about Writing Centers and Tutoring
Hortense Parrish Writing Center

Barnet, Sylvan, Pat Bellanca, Marcia Stubbs.  A Short Guide to College Writing. 2nd ed.  New York: Penguin Academics, 2005.

Boquet, Elizabeth H. Noise from the Writing Center. Logan: Utah UP, 2002.

Bruce, Shanti, and Ben Rafoth, eds. ESL Writers: A Guide for WritingCenter Tutors. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2004.

Casagrande, June.  Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for
         Fun and Spite.  New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

Dawe, Charles W., and Edward A. Dornan. One to One: Resources for Conference-Centered Writing. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

Flynn, Thomas, and Mary King. Dynamics of the Writing Conference. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Gallagher, Eddye S. Teaching Real Writing. 3 vols. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

Gillespie, Paula. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. New York:Pearson-Longman, 2003.

Glenn, Cheryl, Melissa A. Goldwaite, and Robert Connors. The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing. 4th ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

Goldsby, Jackie. Peer Tutoring in Basic Writing. Berkeley: Bay Area Writing Project,1981.

Goldstein, Barbara, Jack Waugh, and Karen Linsky.  Grammar to Go:  How It Works and How to Use It.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Good, Edward C.  A Grammar Book for You and I.  Virginia: Capital Books, Inc.,2002.

Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Brikenstein.  They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Hacker, Diana, and Wanda Van Goor.  Exercises to Accompany Rules for Writers: A Concise Handbook.  2nd ed.  New York: Bedford, 1988.

Hairston, Maxine, and John J. Ruszkiewicz. Transparency Masters to Accompany TheScott, Foresman Handbook for Writers. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1988.

Harris, Muriel. Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference. Urbana, IL:National Council of Teachers of English, 1986.

Harris, Muriel. Tutoring Writing: A Sourcebook for Writing Labs. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1982.

Hawkins, Thom, and Phyllis Brooks.  Improving Writing Skills.  San Francisco:Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 1981.

Herman, Jerry. The Tutor and the Writing Student: A Case Study. Berkeley: Bay Area Writing Project, 1979.

Kinkead, Joyce A., and Jeanette G. Harris, eds. Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies. Urbana, IL:

National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Meyer, Emily, and Louise Z. Smith. The Practical Tutor. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.

Mlynarczyk, Rebecca, and Bonne August.  Journal of Basic Writing.  Vol. 24.  New York: City University of New York, 2005.  (2 copies)

Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood.  The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1995. (2 copies: 1st edition and 2nd edition)

Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood. The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. 2nd ed.

Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

Murray, Donald M.  Read to Write.  3rd ed.  Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993.

Murray, Donald M.  Write to Learn.  3rd ed.  Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1990.

Naotcuka, Rieko.  Mutual Understanding of Different Cultures.  Ed. Nancy Sakamoto.  Japan: Taishukan, 1981.

Nicolas, Melissa, Ed.  (E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center.  Texas: Fountainhead Press, 2008.

O’Connor, Patricia T.  Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

Olson, Gary A., ed. Writing Center: Theory and Administration. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1984.

Orwell, George.  Why I Write.  New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

Pemberton, Michael A., and Joyce Kinkead, eds. The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship. Logan: Utah State UP, 2003.

Rice, Scott.  Right Words Right Places.  California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993.

Ryan, Leigh. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2002.           

(3 copies; 2 copies of 4th ed)

Shaw, Harry.  Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them.  3rd ed.  New York:Perennial Library, 1986.

Silk, Bobbie, ed. The Writing Center Resource Manual. Emmitsburg, MD: National Writing Centers Association P, 1998.

Silverman, Jay, Elaine Hughes, and Diana Roberts Wienbroer.  Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers.  2nd ed.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.  (2 copies)

Soven, Margot Iris. What the Writing Tutor Needs to Know. Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006.      

(2 copies)

Stageberg, Norman C.  An Introductory English Grammar.  4th ed.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.

Stay, Byron L., Christina Murphy, and Eric H. Hobson, eds. Writing Center Perspectives. Emmitsburg, MD: National Writing Center Association P, 1995.

Steward, Joyce S., and Mary K. Croft. The Writing Laboratory. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1982.

Strunk, William, Jr., and E.B. White.  The Elements of Style.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. 

(2 copies of 2nd edition and 1 copy of 4th edition)

Students Helping Students.  Tackling the College Paper.  New York:Prentice Hall, 2005. 
       
Swick, Ed. Writing Better English: An ESL Workbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Tarvers, Josephine Koster. Teaching Writing: Theories and Practices. Glenview, IL:Scott, Foresman, 1988.

Truss, Lyne.  Eats, Shoots, & Leaves.  New York: Gotham Books, 2003.

Walters, Keith, and Michael Brody.  What’s Language Got to Do With It?. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Zinsser, William.  On Writing Well.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers,1976. 

­­­­---.  Writing to Learn.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.