FALL 2005 TUTORING

TUTOR'S ROLES:
EN 103 tutors work with your professor to assist you with your paper assignments, reading assignments, revisions, grammar work, and course materials from the English 103 curriculum. Your tutor has taken English 303H: The Peer Tutoring Project, in which he or she has been trained to work with you and the English 103 curriculum. They will also attend be our class regularly.

EN 103 tutors are prepared to work with you on the following:

Tutors will be available in the Lanzit Center (302 Palamountain Hall) or in the Writing Center (Ladd 320-321) Sunday-Thursday evenings and Wednesday afternoons. Their role is to supplement classroom assignments and discussions with individual work. Each week you and your tutor will fill out a brief report on the work you covered so that your professor is informed about what work you have covered, what you are mastering, or what you need to work on further. Your tutor is not a surrogate professor nor does he or she grade your work.

STUDENT WRITER'S ROLES:
Your responsibility is to come to your session on time and with all the necessary course material to work effectively in your sessions (assignments, EN 103 syllaweb, diskettes, papers, The Mercury Reader, Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, and whatever else your instructor deems necessary).

TUTORING SESSIONS:
At the beginning of the second week of classes, we will ask you to sign up for one tutoring hour per week and to begin your tutoring appointments. Tutoring sessions typicallly last 45 minutes to an hour. While you are required to attend EN 103 tutoring for one hour each week, you may find it more productive and beneficial to attend two sessions each week. To do so, simply sign up for two, thirty-minute sessions instead of one, one-hour session. Tutoring sessions will be held Monday-Thursday evenings, 7:00-10:00 p.m. in the Lanzit Center. The Writing Center in Ladd 320-321 is also open and available for tutoring from noon until midnight Monday-Thursday; noon until 4:00 p.m. Friday; 6:00 p.m.-midnight Sunday.

DUAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
The tutor's responsibility is to work with you on your EN 103 papers, writing activities, and course work. As a student writer, your responsibility is to work with your tutor as he or she gains experience in collaborative learning and as a tutor of writing. Tutor and writer should treat one another with courtesy and respect for one another's roles and time.

QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS:
Questions and concerns about tutoring should be directed, first, to your professor and then, if you wish, to Prof. Phil Boshoff, Director of the Skidmore College Writing Center (x. 5155; 309 Palamountain Hall).