Appointments

What happens in a tutoring session varies, but some aspects are consistent. You and your peer writing tutor will discuss expectations for your assignment, help you establish goals for your session, and go over your paper with you if you have a draft. You will go through a collaborative process that benefits writers of all levels and backgrounds by clarifying ideas, strengthening arguments, and polishing prose.

Click this link to schedule an appointment or drop by to start a walk-in session. The first time you make an appointment, our online scheduling system will prompt you to set up an account. If you show up early, or your tutor is wrapping up their previous session, we have coffee, tea, and chocolate, as well as comfy chairs.

We welcome walk-in sessions, but please be aware that these sessions are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Depending on when you come to the center and the tutor’s availability, a walk-in session may be shorter or longer than a regular session. Therefore, to guarantee a session with one of our tutors, we recommend that you schedule a session through our portal ahead of time.

·  A completed draft if you have one
·  One or two main issues that you want to address during the session
·  Assignment prompts, guidelines, or any requirements from your professor
·  Anything else you think might be helpful: outlines, supplemental reading, class notes, prior assignments, previous drafts, rough drafts, lab results
·  A smile–because one of our tutors is going to make your day a whole lot better!

Who: You and the tutor
What: A collaborative conversation about your writing assignment
When: Monday-Thursday: 10:00 AM-Midnight & Sunday: 2:00 PM-Midnight
Where: Second floor of the Miller Library, Room 206
Why: All writers need readers
How: Drop by or make an appointment here

We value every Writers’ Center appointment and hope students will use our services often. However, we do ask you not to schedule more than two appointments in one day or three appointments in one week. This will allow you time to process and implement the feedback you receive from our tutors. If you need more frequent writing support, please consider signing up for WP112.

In the same spirit as the appointment limits, we also ask you to not book back-to-back sessions. You can do a lot in an hour, which is already a longer session than many peer-to-peer tutoring programs offer, and our tutors are trained to give you substantial feedback over the course of the hour. If you think you need to continue working with a tutor on a piece of writing, please make a second appointment that does not back up to the first.

If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please do so at least 4 hours prior to your scheduled session. If you need to cancel an appointment, you can do so from the appointment page on our website. Please make sure to cancel in advance so that another student may take the time slot.

We sympathize with hectic schedules, but we cannot condone missed appointments. A missed appointment is a missed opportunity for another student. Therefore, we have a one-miss grief policy. We will send you an email whenever you miss an appointment. If you miss appointments repeatedly without notice, you may lose your scheduling privileges.