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English Writing Center

 


Tutor Assistance

About The English Skills Peer Tutors

Writing Help

The English Skills Peer Tutors are eager to help students with their essays, and they are prepared to assist students with writing assignments for any course.

Tutors can assist students with development of essays by brainstorming ideas as well as providing assistance on an essay’s structure. Tutors can also help students understand necessary grammar and punctuation revisions on any college essay.

Important information about tutoring assistance:

  • Tutoring sessions are a maximum of 30 minutes long.
  • No appointment is necessary. All students are tutored on a first come, first served basis.
  • Tutors may help with the fundamentals of organization and content but will not engage in a complete "overhaul" of an essay. The tutor may look at specific components directly affecting an essay’s structure—the presence of an effective introduction and a thesis statement, topic sentences, concrete examples and support, transitional devices, as well as an effective conclusion.
  • Tutors help students from any class that requires a writing assignment.
  • Tutors are available to help students with reading class vocabulary sentences; tutors will help students with sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation as well as word use and definitions.
  • Tutorial assistance cannot substitute for an instructor’s help on material covered in class that is unique to a class.
  • If students need tutorial assistance on research papers or portfolios that are lengthy, students may engage in several tutoring sessions. Tutors will help students for the time allotted and then ask students to sign up for another session.
  • Often the EWC has a waiting list; sometimes students have to wait 30 minutes or longer.
     
Information about how to write essays and basic grammar information can be obtained via the
How to Write an Essay link.

Reading Help

Trained reading tutors can help students develop strategies to improve their understanding of difficult vocabulary and college level texts as well as help with various ways to achieve meaningful study methods.

 

Computer Tutor Help

Computer Tutors are available to help students with the operation of the computers and software found in the EWC.

Students should ask computer tutors for help with any of the following areas:
 

  • Saving documents: Students must use a device such as a USB thumb drive or a PC formatted disk to save their work. To avoid losing an essay, students should frequently save their documents (essays) to a disk in Drive “A” or to their own backup device; if students save files to a computer's hard drive “My Documents,” the files will not be saved.

  • Basic computer operation: Computer tutors can help students with opening files or with general computer questions.

  • Printing: All printing is “Pay for Printing”: $0.15 per sheet of paper. The printer is located in the main Tech Mall right outside room 70-122. Look for Printer Station #3.

  • Grammar software: All software needed by students is accessible from the desktop: English Microlab, Focus on Grammar; Grammar 3D; An Electronic Writer's Reference; Skills Bank 4; Skills Bank 5; Word Smart, and Inspiration.

 

 

 

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