Re: A question

[R.Rickly@TTACS.TTU.EDU (Becky Rickly)]

There's a much earlier article--can't recall the name, but I read it as an
MA student at Ohio State--about the writing teacher as midwife (as opposed
to the prevalent "coach" metaphor).  Really interesting stuff.

--Becky

At 1:45 PM 10/19/99, Michael Pemberton wrote:

>You're probably thinking of "Midwifery in the Writing Center" by Michelle
>DeLappe in the May 1998 issue of WLN (v22#9), pp. 1-4.
>
>At 01:04 PM 10/19/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi, all:
>>Some tutors and I have been discussing the analogy of tutoring and
>>childbirth, but I thought I had read this idea before we brought it up
>>today.  Have some of you raised that comparison before?  Can you
>>remember where I heard/read it?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Sonja
>>--
>>Sonja S. Bagby
>>Director
>>University Writing Center
>>State University of West Georgia
>>Carrollton, GA 30118
>>sbagby@westga.edu
>>770-830-2258
>>
>>
>>
>Michael Pemberton
>Department of Writing and Linguistics
>P.O. Box 8026
>Georgia Southern University
>Statesboro, GA  30461
>michaelp@gasou.edu
>(912) 871-1383