ESL Writers : a guide for writing center tutors / edited by Shanti Bruce & Ben Rafoth ; foreword by Ilona Leki. - Portsmouth, N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers/Heinemann, c2004. - xv, 173 p. ; 23 cm.

Foreword by Hona Leki. - Introduction. - Pt. 1. Cultural contexts. 1. Insights into cultural divides / Nancy Hayward. 2. Theoretical perspectives on learning a second language / Theresa Jiinling Tseng. - Pt. II. The ESL tutoring section. 3. Getting started / Shanti Bruce. 4. Reading an ESL writer's text / Paul Kei Matsuda and Michelle Cox. 5. Avoiding appropriation / Coral Severino. 6. "Earth aches by midnight": Helping ESL. writers clarify their intended meaning / Amy Jo Minett. 7. Looking at the whole text / Jennifer Staben and Kathryn Dempsey Nordhaus. 8. Editing line by line / Cynthia Linville. 9. Tutoring ESL papers online / Ben Rafoth. 10. Raising questions about plagiarism / Kurt Bouman. 11. Is this my job? / Paula Gillespie. 12. Creative writing workshops for ESL writers / Kevin Dvorak. Pt. III. A broader view. 13. The Role of writing in higher education abroad / Gerd Brauer. 14. Trying to explain English / Ben Rafoth. 15. ESL students share their writing center experiences / Shanti Bruce. - Glossary. - Contributors. - Authors index. - Subject index.

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