Spring 2008 Tutoring

TUTOR'S ROLES:
EN 103 tutors work to assist you with your EN 103 readings, paper assignments, revisions, grammar work, and other assignments in the English 103 curriculum. Your tutor has taken English 303H: The Peer Tutoring Project, in which he or she has been trained to tutor college students in academic writing and been introduced to the English 103 curriculum.

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

Tutors will be available in the Lanzit Center (302 Palamountain Hall) Sunday-Thursday evenings. Their role is to supplement classroom assignments and discussions with individual work. After each meeting, you and your tutor will fill out a brief report on the work you covered so that I am 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, papers, The Mercury Reader, Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, and whatever else your instructor deems necessary).

TUTORING SESSIONS:
Tutoring will begin the beginning of the second week of classes. Tutoring sessions typically 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. Tutoring sessions will be held Monday-Thursday evenings, 7:00-11:00 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, me and then, if you wish, to Prof. Linda Hall, Acting Director of the Skidmore College Writing Center (x. 5182; 331 Palamountain Hall).