Friday, February 11, 2011

Tips for Tutoring

The following sites and links are helpful tips and techniques for creating a helpful tutoring session:

1. In this link, the De Anza College has compiled a list of various links to excellent references and resources used in their own writing tutor sessions. This includes a wide range of topics, from thesaurus and dictionary sites to general writing techniques and their explanations.

- http://www.deanza.edu/studentsuccess/writing-reading-center/resources.html

2. The following is a handbook for the Bluefield College Writing Center. The link states objectives for tutors to use in their sessions, as well as processes and specific steps to follow to be certain a tutor is successful in helping the tutee.

- http://bcweb.bluefield.edu/cowl/tutor/bchandbook.htm

3. The next link is from the Dartmouth Writing Program. They have shared ways of quickly getting to know the student writer, as well as specific questions to ask the writer to help him or her achieve what he or she is attempting.

- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/tutor/methods/diagnose.shtml

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