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Although some of you may have encouraged your students to visit us, others may not be acquainted with the services we are now providing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To begin, we are devoted to developing the kinds of reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that the university requires. We welcome students who need help understanding the particular conventions of writing, not only for English assignments, but for assignments across the disciplines. This may entail helping them to break down a prompt/assignment, guiding them in research practices, focusing and developing their ideas, and editing for better and clearer style. But because we value developing students who are independent learners, we are not an editing service. That is, our highly trained tutors will explain issues of grammar and style, but we put away the red pens and hold students accountable for developing themselves as stronger editors and proofreaders of their own texts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>I’d also like to emphasize the high quality of our tutorial staff and the ongoing training we provide for them. Part of the training process involves reading and discussing articles about the theoretical and practical issues of tutoring. For example, this semester we will have tutor workshops on better serving our international student population, which, I know, is an area of concern to many of you. The tutors will also master APA, MLA, and Chicago formats, so that they can address students’ needs in formatting papers for various disciplines. Ultimately, the tutors are trained to put the responsibility for writing and thinking in the hands of the student. I would be happy to address any particular questions you have about our tutors and respond to your requests for handouts or workshops that would serve the needs of your students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Finally, I would like to invite you to the Center for a short tour or take advantage of the following services:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>a tutor or I will come to your class to give a 10 minute explanation of what we do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>tutors will visit your class and do a “mock” tutoring session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>a tutor will come to your class and do a short tutoring session with a volunteer from your class to show students what a session is like.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>my tutors will be giving various workshops for students throughout the semester that your students are welcome to sign up for. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>If you have any questions about how we might help you and your students or about why we do things the way we do them, please feel free to call or email me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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