Writing, Study Skills, Reading and Time Management Tutors Charles Boniface, Doug Smith, Janet Cochran, Micheal Strickland, Sue Keith, and Chris Craig. Students make half hour or hour appointments with these tutors through the front desk. Instead, tutors help the student to do these things for themselves. For instance, if a student says she has a problem with passive verbs, or the tutor notices this, then the tutor may explain how to convert passive verbs to active ones, demonstrate this using one of the student's sentences, then ask the student to find a passive verb and do the same. After that, the student and tutor can move on through the paper, possibly marking passive verbs, but generally focusing their attention on other issues, such as thesis development or organization.
Students often come in to talk about time management.
Rather than stick to abstract principles of good time management, ASC tutors work with students' schedules and together they try to come up with effective but realistic ways for students to successfully manage academic responsibilities without neglecting extracurricular and social activities. Other issues these tutors commonly deal with are study skills and test taking skills, including how to read texts more effectively, how to best prepare for different kinds of exams, and how to handle timed exams. QuantitativeSkills Professors Steve Shapiro tutoring a physics student. Sometimes students have a few specific questions about labs, problem sets, or general chemical concepts, but they don't need a long-term tutor through the Student Tutoring Service. Or, students may be signed up for a student tutor, but need some immediate help while they wait for the ASC to locate a tutor.