Welcome back! Fall presents such a terrific opportunity to begin a fresh and envision an exciting future.
Here at the Writing Center, we value your return, peer tutors, and your commitment to providing quality writing support, freely, to OU-C's students. The university is certainly lucky to have you on board!
As we wrap up the first day of our training, would you give us some of your thoughts on the up & coming Fall quarter? What are your hopes and/or concerns for the Center? What advice would you give to a freshman who might stumble across this page? And/or, more specifically, what did you find useful from, say, MaCauley's chapter on "Setting the Agenda" or Cristy Null's visit?
2 comments:
Hello, Deb and everybody else! :D
I'm looking forward to the upcoming fall quarter. It will feel strange to have more than one person on a shift at a time, but it will be good to work with other people.
Advice for new freshmen would be this: budget your time. It's easy to fall into the pit of "I'll work on this later because I have so much time." Well, you don't have that much time. Before you know it, you'll have papers due and exams to study for, and you'll have more stress on your plate than you need to have because you procrastinated.
I'm definitely doing the pot-calling-the-kettle-black thing by advising people not to procrastinate, but I do try to follow my own advice. Sometimes.
Cristy Null's visit was interesting, and I'm glad to know a little bit more of what to do with a challenged student.
I think we had a good session today!
I have a feeling this fall will see a huge influx of students with challenges... which I hope doesn't result in tutors with high-blood pressure! Strategies to accommodate tutees of this variety should be extremely helpful. I know I've been at wit's end after a few lengthy sentence-by-sentence sessions, and too often wondered what, if any, new tactics the tutee carried away with them.
We need thinking hats to give out as freebies.
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