Guidelines for Tutors
Tutors WILL do the following:
- Create and encourage dialogue
- Ask open-ended questions
- Help students identify and evaluate resources
- Address ideas first, organization second, and sentence-level concerns last
- Suggest ways to improve the students' writing, editing and proofreading skills.
- Encourage students to take advantage of faculty and TA office hours, "Ask a Librarian," LARC, and other campus resources
- Comment on clarity and logic of textual analysis
- Encourage students to take authority in their own writing
- Respect the students' privacy at all times
- Challenge students to think for themselves
- Build students' confidence to actively participate in their own education
Tutors will NOT do the following:
- Monopolize conversation
- Ask limited or ineffective questions
- Do students' research or evaluate sources for them
- Write on student papers or type information into students' computer files
- Fix student errors in grammar or punctuation
- Lead students to believe that the tutors are the only resource students have to work on writing and research skills
- Offer opinions on students' interpretations of the text.
- Agree with students who say they will never be able to write well
- Discuss the students or their concerns in public
- Offer an opinion about the grade, even when asked
- Allow students to become dependent on them