Help for Students
To get the most out of a tutoring session, be prepared. This means
bringing a copy of your assignment and anything you have already written
with you to the tutoring session.
Be prepared to be an active participant in the tutorial. Your ideas,
questions, and suggestions are all important to how well a tutoring session
will go. A tutor's job is to offer a reader's response to your work, ask
questions, and suggest strategies to accomplish some of your goals.
Be sure to allow sufficient time to revise. Don't arrange a tutoring
session just before a paper or project is due. Plan a tutoring session
so that you allow yourself time to take advantage of a tutor's suggestions
and the insights you develop in a tutoring session.
We won't proofread your paper for you but we will help you become a better
proofreader. We recognize that proofreading is a skill that one must
learn and develop and that is why although we won't proofread a paper
for you, we will go over a paper with you and help you become a better
proofreader. Through this process, we will show you how to spot errors,
and when you don't realize that something is an error, we will explain
what is wrong and how to correct the problem.
Have realistic expectations. One can learn a great deal in a tutoring
session, but writing is a process that takes time to develop and refine.
Don't be discouraged if a C paper doesn't miraculously turn into an A
paper. Even if a grade does not improve immediately, you are learning
how to be a better writer, and over time as you use what you learn more
and more, you should see results in your writing. Remember, too, that
when learning something new, sometimes mistakes will occur. This is a
natural part of the learning process.