The Writer’s Place in the Tutoring Center

The Writer’s Place tutors are undergraduate students who have completed an International College Reading & Learning Association certified training program on providing assistance to students at any stage of the writing process to:

· analyze assignments

· connect readings and class notes to assignment requirements

· brainstorm ideas

· research appropriate materials

· organize ideas and start an initial draft or revise a draft (once or multiple times)

· edit draft for correctness in grammar, punctuation, usage

· develop strategies to read and reflect on a draft with specific attention to

1. clarity

2. organization o transitions

3. completeness of explanations

4. logic

5. verification that all assignment requirements are addressed

6. audience

Tutors will NOT

· create your thesis or your draft

· find your data

· determine the effectiveness of your research

· decide what your paper should include

· do your proofreading

· make other writerly decisions for you

But tutors WILL HELP YOU create or revise a thesis, search the library databases for information, decide how to organize and present data effectively, consider the relevance and effectiveness of your research, decide what your paper should include (and omit), proofread effectively, and make other writerly decisions independently.