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| Tutoring Assistance |
Students needing help on writing assignments in their classes may request a tutoring session. Typically, a sessions will last approximately thirty minutes. During an on-campus tutoring session, students may seek advice about brainstorming, drafting, revising, proofreading, and documenting sources. Sessions should be scheduled in advance.
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| What a Tutoring Session Might Include: |
1. As students start their assignments, tutors can check to see if students understand their instructor's directions and can offer helpful hints.
2. As students revise their typed drafts, tutors can offer suggestions about any and all of the following areas: |
- Focus (main idea, main point, purpose)
- Organization (arrangement, paragraphing)
- Development (supporting details, examples, logic)
- Coherence (flow, use of transitions)
- Style (sentence structure, tone, word choice)
- The title, the thesis statement, the introduction, and/or the conclusion
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| 3. As students polish their drafts, tutors can help students develop their own proofreading skills concerning spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Also, as students finish their final drafts, tutors can double-check their documentation. |
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| What a Tutoring Session will NOT include: |
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1. Students may NOT drop off papers for a tutor to review, and then be picked up later by the student. A student must schedule a time to sit down with a tutor and discuss the paper together.
2. Tutors will NOT write a student's essay. The tutor's job is to answer questions and make suggestions for improvement, but the student's original words and thoughts must remain in the paper.
3. Tutors will NOT proofread a student's entire work. Tutors will be happy to respond to specific questions a student has, but a student should not walk into a tutoring session and ask "How does this paper look?" Instead, specific questions should be asked by the student.
4. Tutors will NOT assume to know the criteria for a student's assignment. Instructors establish their own specific expectations and evaluation criteria for assignments, and students should understand the criteria for the written work. It is always helpful to bring any assignment sheets with you to a tutoring session.
What a Student Should Bring to a Tutoring Session: |
- Two (2) copies of the work that the student has completed so far
- A pencil
- The assignment sheet from the instructor
- The textbook from the class
- A list of questions you have about the writing of the paper
- The knowledge of what your instructor has noted as weak areas in previous papers (maybe even bring previous papers to the tutoring session, too.)
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