With surface and email formats, yutors create and critique 12 assignments. We supply a 200-page book of sample assignments to guide tutors. This level has the largest enrollment, and most new tutors start here. Surface mail only , our traditional format, dates to the Writing Tutorials' founding in 1983. Tutors send an assignment and a schedule of due dates.
Students write an essay and mail it.
Tutors critique it. Logistics of surface mail make this is a product-oriented course. Email only is a variation on the traditional format that isn't subject to the vicissitudes of the Postal Service. It works pretty much the same as the surface mail course except that students receive and send most assignments via email. This format is losing enrollment to the format below.