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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.
  • For the most part, no appointment is necessary, and all students are tutored on a first come, first served basis.  However, there are one-hour appointments upon request.
  • 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 tutors can help students develop strategies to improve their understanding of difficult vocabulary and college level texts.

 

 

 

 

 

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