It�s All in the Notes: What Session Notes Can Tell Us About the Work of Writing Centers

Giaimo, Genie Nicole; Cheatle, Joseph; Hastings, Candace K.; Modey, Christine

doi:10.37514/jwa-j.2018.2.1.09

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“…I have published on corpus linguistic analysis of session notes (Giaimo et al, 2018) in cross-institutional contexts. In that article, I noted that, at the time, Ohio State University's Writing Center conducted over 10,000 appointments annually.…”

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Uses of Corpus Linguistics in Higher Education Research: An Adjustable Lens

Alsop¹,

King²,

Giaimo³

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Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

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In this chapter, we explore uses of corpus linguistics within higher education research. Corpus linguistic approaches enable examination of large bodies of language data based on computing power. These bodies of data, or corpora, facilitate investigation of the meaning of words in context. The semiautomated nature of such investigation helps researchers to identify and interpret language patterns that might otherwise be inaccessible through manual analysis. We illustrate potential uses of corpus linguistic approaches through four short case studies by higher education researchers, spanning educational contexts, disciplines and genres. These case studies are underpinned by discussion of the development of corpus linguistics as a field of investigation, including existing open corpora and corpus analysis tools. We give a flavour of how corpus linguistic techniques, in isolation or as part of a wider research approach, can be particularly helpful to higher education researchers who wish to investigate language data and its context.

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“…The two discourse analysis projects I mention here originated from the corpus analysis project (Giaimo et al, 2018). Without its findings that tutors struggle with emotional labour in their sessions and seem to rely upon a repertoire of similar strategies, these later studies on tutor growth and tutor practice would not be possible.…”

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Uses of Corpus Linguistics in Higher Education Research: An Adjustable Lens

Alsop¹,

King²,

Giaimo³

et al. 2020

Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

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For the record: Practicing critical software literacy in writing centers

Bryan

2024

Computers and Composition

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Enabling practices at the centre

DasBender

2021

Writing & Pedagogy

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The recent focus on threshold concepts in writing studies indicates the field’s growing commitment to engaging writing-based threshold concepts in the daily work of teaching and learning to facilitate writing transfer. However, although there is growing evidence of robust scholarly work in this area, research on the pedagogical importance of these concepts to the writing development and tutoring of L2 students is still in its nascent stages. To address this gap, this paper first presents findings from a research study that aims to understand how writing centre tutors addressed the needs of L2 students in tutoring sessions and the extent to which threshold-oriented language appeared in the content of the conference summaries. After discussing the findings, the paper proposes a threshold concept-based framework for tutoring L2 writers involving two established concepts: ‘writers’ histories, processes, and identities vary’ and ‘writing is informed by prior experiences.’ In addition, a new model of the conference summary as a reflective tool to promote writing transfer is presented along with a discussion of emergent writing centre-oriented concepts that reimagine the role of the tutor as an ‘expert-outsider’ and the L2 student as ‘informed novice.'

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It�s All in the Notes: What Session Notes Can Tell Us About the Work of Writing Centers

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Uses of Corpus Linguistics in Higher Education Research: An Adjustable Lens

Uses of Corpus Linguistics in Higher Education Research: An Adjustable Lens

For the record: Practicing critical software literacy in writing centers

Enabling practices at the centre

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