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Beratungsstrategien von Peer Tutoren bei der Beratung von Hausarbeiten.- Eine quantitative und qualitative Untersuchung auf der Grundlage von Beratungsprotokollen an der Europa Universität Viadrina.

How Peer Writing Tutors work with extended Research Papers. A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis based on Minutes of Writing Consultations at the Writing Center at the European University Viadrina

  • Die Arbeit untersucht Beratungsprotokolle aus der Schreibsprechstunde der Europa-Universität Viadrina. Sie fragt nach den Beratungsstrategien der Peer Tutorinnen und Peer Tutoren in der Beratungssituation. Um eine sinnvolle Auswahl aus den Protokollen zu treffen, wählt die Arbeit sowohl einen quantitativen als auch einen qualitativen methodischen Zugang zu den Daten (Datentriangulation). So ermittelt sie zunächst die am häufigsten vertretene Textsorte (Hausarbeit), die am häufigsten auftauchenden Nutzerinnen und Nutzer der Sprechstunde (BA Studierende Kulturwissenschaften im ersten Semester) und den wichtigsten Beratungsschwerpunkt (Struktur und Gliederung). Aufgrund dieser Parameter werden Protokolle ausgewählt, die dann einer Qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse im Hinblick auf die Beratungsstrategien der Peer Tutorinnen und Peer Tutoren unterzogen werden. Diese werden mit Theorien zur studentischen Schreibberatung verglichen und es werden Schlussfolgerungen für die praktische Arbeit abgeleitet.
  • Writing plays a crucial role at the university. Research about writing showed that writing skills cannot be expected as fully developed once a student enters university. Rather it needs to be trained and students need to be supported while starting their learning process to write on an academic level. This lead to the development of writing centers in the past decades and to the slow implementation of a student centered writing support system: peer tutoring in writing. This concept, which was originally introduced in the USA, has also been adapted at German universities one of them being the European University Viadrina. At the European University Viadrina peer tutoring in writing is practiced since 2004 and has been established effectively with a Writing Center since 2007. The Writing Center aims to support and enable students’ writing skills and at the same time it is determined to be a place of students for students. This paper specifically wants to examine the work done by the peer tutors at thisWriting plays a crucial role at the university. Research about writing showed that writing skills cannot be expected as fully developed once a student enters university. Rather it needs to be trained and students need to be supported while starting their learning process to write on an academic level. This lead to the development of writing centers in the past decades and to the slow implementation of a student centered writing support system: peer tutoring in writing. This concept, which was originally introduced in the USA, has also been adapted at German universities one of them being the European University Viadrina. At the European University Viadrina peer tutoring in writing is practiced since 2004 and has been established effectively with a Writing Center since 2007. The Writing Center aims to support and enable students’ writing skills and at the same time it is determined to be a place of students for students. This paper specifically wants to examine the work done by the peer tutors at this particular Writing Center. It is an empirical study of the reports that the tutors write after each tutoring session. From 2007 to September 2010 826 reports have been written. These re-ports will first be evaluated statistically with the help of the statistical program SPSS. After-wards the texts of the reports will be evaluated with the help of the qualitative content analy-sis by Philip Mayring. The central question of this paper is how the peer tutors at the Writing Center of the European University Viadrina tutor students whose concerns are connected to writing a seminar paper (Hausarbeit). The first chapter describes the background of the con-cept of peer tutoring in writing, also giving some insight into Writing Center work and the challenges of writing at the university. Also the Writing Center at the European University Viadrina will be presented in this chapter. Moreover both empirical methods applied in this study are presented: the quantitative method as well as the qualitative method. Subsequent-ly to the description of the process of examination the results of the study will be presented and interpreted. It became very clear in the course of study that the text which is most com-monly advised in writing consultations is the Hausarbeit (seminar paper). Furthermore the findings suggest that the students who come most frequently are students of the faculty of social and cultural studies in their first semester who experience difficulties in structuring their papers. Thus the reports of these specific writing consultations have been chosen for the qualitative content analysis. The content analysis then showed that tutors at the Writing Center at the European University Viadrina work collaboratively with their tutees enabling them to help themselves, they give feedback on texts, they pass on specific knowledge and they also perceive feelings of the tutees and react on them. These five categories which sum up the strategies that peer tutors use to help students will then be discussed with regard to theoretical findings described earlier in this paper and finally an outlook for future studies will be given.show moreshow less

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Author:Mandy Pydde
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus-478
Series (Serial Number):Schreiben im Zentrum, Schriftenreihe zur Schreibzentrumsforschung (1)
Document Type:Book
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2011/06/08
Publishing Institution:Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Creating Corporation:Pydde, Mandy
Release Date:2011/06/08
Tag:Schreibberatung; Schreibzentrum; Peer Tutoring; Qualitative Forschung; Quantitative Forschung
Writing Center Research; Writing Consulting; Peer Writing Tutor; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis
GND Keyword:Textproduktion; Schriftliche Kommunikation; Tutor; Statistische Beratung; Sprachberatung; Beratungsgespräch
Institutes:Schreibzentrum Europa-Universität Viadrina / Schreibzentrum Europa-Universität Viadrina
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung
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