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TUTOR, civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor.
     2. By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Civ. Code, art. 263. Above that age, and until their, majority or emancipation, they are placed under the authority of a curator. Ibid.
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The on-line lab pairs Roane State composition students with graduate writing tutors at UALR.
CYBERSPACE TUTORS GIVE STUDENTS HELP IN WRITING PROJECTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
However, this paper argues that the non-directive tutoring practices so prevalent in tutoring manuals such as Leigh Ryan's The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors are more heavily influenced by institutional and social considerations than by writing center theories subsumed under either the romantic or social constructionist epistemologies.
Writing center theory & tutoring pedagogy disjunction by Costino, Kimberly A. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
A standard approach to addressing this problem has been for writing instructors and writing tutors to (1) help students become aware that effective writing is situation-specific, and (2) help students learn strategies they can use to educate themselves about discipline-specific conventions.
Problems in the writing center by Evans, Kathryn / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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