The tutor will try to help you focus your ideas and begin to shape a thesis statement. In these cases, the tutors often encourage students to begin writing during the session. Appointments are not necessarily shorter when students do not have drafts with them. After reading the essay, the tutor will first discuss with you anything your instructor wants you to address in revision. Once you and the tutor are confident about the overall direction of the essay, then you will begin to work on more local issues such as grammar, punctuation, and style.
Appointments can take up to fifty minutes and they usually do.
When you have completed it, place the evaluation in the box on the reception desk. Your tutor asks if you would like us to inform your instructor that you have been tutored at the Center. Most instructors are happy to have you use the Center, so we encourage you to agree. These summaries are confidential. If there is an empty carrel at the Writing Center when you finish your appointment, you may stay and begin revising your essay.