- Enhance creativity by encouraging engagement and investment
- Help students articulate how/what/why they read
- "Revise out" to expand writing
- Find main ideas from students' writing, decide where it might productively go, trim unnecessary text, and have the writer decide what is most useful
- Create positive writing experiences
Chapter 12
- Engaging students in as many parts of the writing process as possible helps them become more analytical and thoughtful
- Enter into an intellectual relationship to give specific, individual advice
- Understand the writer's perspective, challenge them by making the issue more complex and utilize outside sources
- Supportive tutors are constructive critics
Chapter 16
- Instead of simply proofreading, we can show writers how to step back from their papers and see their work with new eyes
- Discuss whether proofreading is necessary at the assignment's current stage
- Treat problems you are unsure about as curiosities
- Make errors the writer and instructor are most concerned about your priority together
- Think out loud to explain finding errors
- Give suggestions in relation to intended meaning
- Compare examples of writer's weak points with writer's strong points
- Allow students the opportunity to fix problems on their own
- You don't have to know everything, and students benefit from knowing you don't
Chapter 17
- We may sometimes need to clarify what skills are needed for research paper assignments
- Plagiarism is much more easily avoided with early intervention
- Help students take honest notes and build an honest structure/language
- Students have to successfully take in information from outside sources in order to reiterate or use it without plagiarizing
- Stress analysis and synthesis while using own language
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