Jo Mackiewicz is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University, USA, where she codirects the Advanced Communication program. She earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her recent research focuses on tutoring strategies in writing center conferences. With Isabelle Thompson, she published Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors.

This book analyzes the aboutness of writing center talk-what tutors and student writers talk about when they come together to talk about writing. By combining corpus-driven analysis to provide a quantitative, microlevel view of the subject matter and sociocultural discourse analysis to provide a qualitative macrolevel view of tutor-student writer interactions, it further establishes how these two research methods operate together to produce a robust and rigorous analysis of spoken discourse.

1. A Mixed-Method Approach to the Aboutness Writing Center Talk

2. A Complement to Discourse Analysis of Writing Center Talk: Corpus Analysis

3. Methods

4. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk through Basic Characteristics

5. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Function Words

6. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Key Content Words

7. Analyzing the Aboutness of Writing Center Talk with Lexical Bundles

8. Conclusion