Teaching One-to-One: Some Sources

Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University

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A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.

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Last updated 23 August 2009

Anson, Chris M., et al.  Scenarios for Teaching Writing:  Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.  Chapter 5, "Managing Discourse in Classes, Conferences, and Small Groups." 

Benson, Kirsten F.  "The Writer First:  Using Computers to Make One-to-One Conferencing More Successful."  The Computer-Assisted Composition Journal III (1989):  51-6.

Blalock, Susan.  "Negotiating Authority through One-to-One Collaboration in the Multicultural Writing Center."  Writing in Multicultural Settings.  Ed. Carol Severino, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler.  New York:  MLA, 1997.  79-93. 

Carnicelli, Thomas A.  "The Writing Conference:  A One-to-One Conversation."  Eight Approaches to Teaching Composition.  Ed. Timothy R. Donovan and Ben W. McClelland.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1980.  101-32. 

Cooper, Marilyn M., and Cynthia L. Selfe.  "Computer Conferences and Learning:  Authority, Resistance, and Internally Persuasive Discourse."  College English 52 (December 1990):  847-69.

Crawford, MaryAnn Krajnik, Kathleen Geissler, M. Rini Hughes, and Jeffrey Miller.  "Electronic Conferencing in an Interdisciplinary Humanities Course."  Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. Ed. Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. 296-304.

Fischer, Ruth Overman.  "Handling the Confrontative Conference."  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2002.  432-434. 

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer, and A.M. Katz.  "Pedagogical Interaction During the Composing Process:  The Writing Conference."  Writing in Real Time:  Modeling Production Processes.  Ed. Ann Matsuhashi.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex, 1987.  58-80.

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer.  "Student-Teacher Conversations about Writing:  Shifting Topics in the Writing Conference."  ERIC ED 214 181.

French, Jana.  "The Dialogic Writing Conference:  Negotiating and Predicting the Role of Author."  Teaching Academic Literacy:  The Uses of Teacher-Research in Developing a Writing Program.  Ed. Katherine L. Weese, Stephen L. Fox, and Stuart Greene.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999.  135-148. 

Halio, Marcia Peoples.  "Conferencing at the Advanced Composition Level."  ATAC Forum 2 (Fall 1990):  11-13.

Harris, Muriel.  Teaching One-to-One:  The Writing Conference.  Urbana:  NCTE, 1986.

Jacobs, Suzanne, and Adela Karliner.  "Helping Writers to Think:  The Effect of Speech Roles in Individual Conferences on the Quality of Thought in Student Writing."  College English 38 (1977):  489-505.

Joyner, Michael.  "The Writing Center Conference and the Textuality of Power."  The Writing Center Journal 12.1 (Fall 1991):  80-89.

Kuriloff, Pesche C.  "Reaffirming the Writing Conference:  A Tool for Writing Teachers Across the Curriculum."  Journal of Teaching Writing 10.1 (Spring/Summer 1991):  45-58.

Lambert, Leo M., Stacey Lane Tice, and Patricia H. Feathersone, eds.  University Teaching:  A Guide for Graduate Students.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse UP, 1996. 

Lerner, Neal.  "The Teacher-Student Writing Conference and the Desire for Intimacy."  College English 68.2 (Nov. 2005):  186-208. 

Murray, Donald M.  "The Listening Eye:  Reflections on the Writing Conference."  College Composition and Communication 43 (October 1992):  297-322.  Rpt. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook.  Ed. Gary Tate, Edward P.J. Corbett, and Nancy Myers.  3rd ed.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1994.  96-105. Rpt. Dialogue on Writing:  Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition.  Ed. Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 

Newkirk, Thomas.  "The First Five Minutes:  Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference."  Writing and Response:  Theory, Practice, and Research.  Ed. Chris M. Anson.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 1989.  317-331. 

Newkirk, Thomas.  "The Writing Conference as Performance."  Research in the Teaching of English 29.2 (May 1995):  193-215. 

Parker, Jan. "One-to-Ones Still Add Up." The Times of London 28 November 2002.

Sperling, Melanie.  "I Want to Talk to Each of You:  Collaboration and the Teacher-Student Writing Conference."  Research in the Teaching of English 24 (October 1990):  279-321.

Stancliff, Michael.  "Why Student Conferences Are Important."  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2002.  366. 

Stanger, Carol.  "The Sexual Politics of the One-to-One Tutorial Approach and Collaborative Learning."  Teaching Writing:  Pedagogy, Gender, and Equity.  Ed. Cynthia L. Caywood and Gillian R. Overing.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 1987.  31-44.

Strauss, Susan, and Xuehua Xiang. "The Writing Conference as a Locus of Emergent Agency." Written Communication 23 (2006): 355-396.

Walker, Caroline.  "Teacher Dominance in the Writing Conference."  Journal of Teaching Writing 11.1 (Spring/Summer 1992):  65-88.