How does tutoring help writers?

All writers – even very advanced ones – benefit from having a kindly-but-critical reader to review their work and offer suggestions for improvement. Whether you are staring at an assignment and trying to figure out how to get started or putting the final polish on an assignment you’ve been carefully crafting for weeks or months, a writing tutor can help. Writing tutors provide constructive feedback and guidance to writers across the college on all stages of the writing process.

What can I work on in a tutoring session?

Writing tutors can help with a wide range of writing tasks, like the ones below. (However, we can't tackle all of these topics in a single session.) We can work on writing from any course at CHC.

Help you decode assignments and determine whether a draft meets assignment requirements,
Help you brainstorm and organize your ideas,
Help you identify and draft components of an effective argument, such as thesis statements, source-based evidence, contextualizing explanations, and effective introductory and concluding paragraphs,
Help you incorporate source material effectively and appropriately using quotes, paraphrases, and citations,
Help you learn to revise by identifying sentences, paragraphs, and ideas that need expanding, cutting, or reorganizing,
Help you identify and correct problems with sentence clarity and patterns of sentence error, especially those that interfere with meaning, and
Help you understand and incorporate feedback from peer reviewers or professors.

What should I bring to my tutoring session?

When you come to a tutoring session, please make sure you have the following information with you:

Your assignment prompt and course syllabus
A copy of your draft, if you have one started
Any questions you have about your assignment itself or concerns about your writing in general

Most students bring these documents on their laptops, but you could also bring hard copies or email the documents to your tutor instead.

Do you still have questions about how writing tutoring works?

Check out our Writing Tutoring FAQ page for more information.

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