Argues that tutoring programs are essential adjuncts to community college writing programs. Suggests ways that writing labs might combat the economic problems they face by combining personal tutoring with computers, limiting the skills the lab proposes to handle, and using professional staff to teach workshops. Stresses the importance of tutor…

Based on a series of seven summer workshops on creative writing and pedagogy, this book offers an "inside-out" approach to teaching and writing, an approach that teachers can use for personal growth and self-enrichment as well as for application and inspiration in their public school classrooms. Essays in the book are: (1) "'The Writing's for Us':…